Technoeconomic Assessment of a Gossamer, Planar, Gigawatt-Scale Space-Based Solar Power System

This thesis aims to analyze space-based solar power (SBSP) from both technical and financial standpoints. While the analysis is mainly purposed to validate the findings of existing literature on SBSP, it also seeks to identify the problems that need to be addressed for SBSP to become technically and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Althawadi, Mohamed Adel
Other Authors: Boriskina, Svetlana
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155624