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Courses - Spring 2023
ENAE
Engineering, Aerospace Department Site
ENAE788T
Selected Topics in Aerospace Engineering; Introduction to Power Beaming and Space Solar
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
The course covers an emerging energy delivery technology: power beaming; and a possible clean, constant, and globally transmittable future energy solution: space solar. Covered topics include: fundamentals of space solar, energy collection methods (photovoltaics, thermal engines, sun-pumped lasers); power beaming (microwave, laser, reflection); space solar implementation architectures; space systems design; large space structures and space robotics; safety, regulatory, and societal issues; application contexts; and space and energy economics.