{"id":49277,"date":"2025-04-28T23:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-solar-completes-design-study-for-cassiopeia-satellite\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:28:42","slug":"space-solar-completes-design-study-for-cassiopeia-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-solar-completes-design-study-for-cassiopeia-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Solar Completes Design Study for CASSIOPeiA Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Space Solar<\/strong> has completed CASSiDi, an 18-month, 1.7 million pound ($2.26 million) project designed to advance the design maturity of its CASSIOPeiA satellite. The project advanced key aspects of the design, including the wireless power beaming, in-space assembly process and the ground receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Space Solar said the study confirms that solar power satellite mass targets are achievable, a key driver of the capital cost and the low levelized cost of electricity. Space Solar announced the findings, April 28. The company believes space-based solar power (SBSP) could be key for global energy needs in the future to deliver uninterrupted power in all weather, overcoming the intermittency challenges of traditional wind and solar.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The CASSIOPeiA satellite design uses reflectors and a helical array to continuously collect solar energy and beam it to ground-based receivers via high-frequency radio waves. The study was funded by the UK Space Agency and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as Phase 2 of the Space Based Solar Power Innovation Program.<\/p>\n<p>Space Solar is now accelerating towards deployment, with plans to deliver a megawatt-scale commercial system within five years and expand to a full product range from 30 MW to GigaWatt-scale within 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just 18 months and 1.7 million pounds of engineering work, CASSiDi has accelerated space-based solar power to a new level of maturity, confirming its potential to become a commercially viable clean energy source within the next few years. We now have the most advanced and capable SBSP design in the world\u2014and a clear, achievable roadmap to commercial reality. This is a game-changer for clean energy,\u201d Martin Soltau, Co-CEO at Space Solar, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Soltau recently spoke with <em>Via Satellite<\/em> more in-depth about Space Solar\u2019s plans and the potential for space-based solar power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Solar has completed CASSiDi, an 18-month, 1.7 million pound ($2.26 million) project designed to advance the design maturity of its CASSIOPeiA satellite. The project advanced key aspects of the design, including the wireless power beaming, in-space assembly process and the ground receiver. Space Solar said the study confirms that solar power satellite mass targets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}