The US Army ordered the development of a system for transmitting electricity from space

The American army wants to get into service a system that can transmit the energy received by spacecraft to the earth. A research contract on this topic has been concluded with Northrop Grumman, an American corporation.

The US Air Force Research Laboratory and Northrop Grumman Corporation have entered into an agreement to develop and build equipment for wireless transmission of energy from spacecraft. The work will be conducted as part of the SSPIDR (Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research) program. The corporation has already received a little more than 100 million dollars for work.

Within the framework of this project, the corporation should create a spacecraft with highly efficient solar panels, which will be able to collect solar energy, convert it into radio wave radiation and transmit it to the earth, where special receivers must receive it and convert it to electricity. Accordingly, the development of receivers and energy converters will also be carried out within the framework of this project by specialists of the corporation.

Project details were not disclosed. The U.S. Army plans to use technology for the uninterrupted generation of electricity for field camps or outposts in remote places (mountains, deserts, etc.), where it is difficult to deliver mobile generators and other equipment that can generate electricity.

Energy is a strategic advantage and potential vulnerability for our state and the Ministry of Defense. To ensure the success of the missions of the Ministry of Defense, we must have the necessary energy at the right time and place

- said laboratory director Colonel Eric Felt.

Earlier it was reported that the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory completed the second phase of testing a laser power transmission system, during which tests 400 watts of power were successfully transmitted using an infrared laser over a distance of 325 meters.

Comments

[Major Yurik]

The Yankees, as always, are well settled with a freebie, electricity from space, oil from Syria ........ Hegemons, damn it!

[maxim947]

a good idea, let's see what they succeed, we also need this)) and still come up with a bomb so that not a single satellite in orbit remains. And they will sit without navigation, without communication and in the dark ...

[GKS 2111]

Quote: maxim947

come up with a bomb so that no satellite in orbit remains.

They came up with it for a long time. Military Review. Space.
How do satellites shoot down?
November 26, 2018

[RUSS]

Quote: maxim947

a good idea, let's see what they succeed, we also need this))

But what we have ...

MOSCOW, November 2 - RIA Novosti. Roscosmos terminated the contract with the Khrunichev Center for the production of the Angara-1.2 launch vehicle, according to the materials at the disposal of RIA Novosti.
The contract worth more than two billion rubles was signed on July 25. The rocket was supposed to be ready by October 15, 2021. It was intended for launching the Gonets-M satellites numbered 33, 34 and 35 into orbit.
According to the materials, the contract was terminated on October 30 by the decision of Roscosmos. The reasons for this step were not reported.
In early June, it became known about the problems with the production of Angara missiles. As reported, the Omsk PO Polet (subsidiary of the Khrunichev Center) misses the deadline: the production schedule lagged from three months (Angara-A5) to a year (Angara-1.2). From January to May, the company did not fulfill the plan, employees were deprived of their bonuses.

[maxim947]

Things are tight in Omsk. There, in fact, after global stagnation, they are doing everything from scratch, production has been fully launched and there are few specialists. But they do. And the second stage of the Angara with great delay all the same passed.
Plus, Khrunichev himself is not particularly happy in the transfer of mass production to Omsk.

[Far East]

for sho you so! for minus! nanoCHUBARIK agreed with nanoRAGOZIN to create NANOBATUTA!

[antivirus]

it’s better to learn to transmit to the moon, they won’t lose an hour to Russians ... or to CHIN (in the colonization of space)

[Sibiriya]

I doubt that in the near future something will work out for them. Rather, the project is a cover for military development.

[Chaldon48]

I do not envy staff who will be in the vicinity of these energy receivers.

[Simargl]

Quote: Siberia

Rather, the project is a cover for military development.

American army wants to adopt a system that can transmit the energy received by spacecraft to the earth.

Only the stated goals are nonsense, in my opinion.

Within the framework of this project, the corporation should create a spacecraft with highly efficient solar panels, which will be able to collect solar energy, convert it into radio wave radiation and transmit it to the earth, where special receivers must receive it and convert it to electricity.

It is also necessary to accurately position the beam from wild distances. And / or the receiver must be a gigantic area.
But to burn something is simpler and easier.

[orionvitt]

Quote: maxim947

good idea

Bullshit. Directional microwave radiation of high power, just arrange on the ground, something of a local microwave oven. How are they going to focus the beam? What power should a satellite be in order to transmit energy, at least 100 kW, to the ground? There was such a project in 1947, where the "too smart" offered to lay cables under the asphalt and, using high-frequency currents, transmit energy directly to the car. They calculated the energy losses and shed tears. Just cut the budget. ! 00 million, this is just the beginning.

[poquello]

Quote: Major Yurik

The Yankees, as always, are well settled with freebies, electricity from space

ett noodles, point-directed applied research, for a peace treaty

[VeteranVSSSR]

And where will they find so many wires, is this not intelligible to the mind ???

[RUSS]

Quote: VeteranVSSSR

And where will they find so many wires, is this not intelligible to the mind ???

They will buy from us , still wires are being dug from poles and apparently they are selling to Americans))))

[Polite Moose]

Quote: VeteranVSSSR

And where they find so many wires, this is not comprehensible to the mind

What wires ?! They have huge losses. Look around! It's the 21st century. They will deliver "empty" batteries to orbit, charge them there and drop them back. Or at the place of charging to exchange for everyone. One condition is pickup.

[VeteranVSSSR]

Batteries are of course interesting, but as long as they are in free fall, their Romanians / Moldova will be demolished to waste. Not only wires ... + a trampoline and a helmet ...

[RUSS]

Quote: VeteranVSSSR

Batteries are of course interesting, but as long as they are in free fall, their Romanians / Moldova will be demolished to waste. Not only wires ... + a trampoline and a helmet ...

In childhood, we also smelted lead from batteries

[Jerk]

Focus fails - and you get grilled penguins in their own sweat and natural shell. Only from the microwave. Good target for EW

[Kenxnumx]

Just to spoil.

[Jerk]

Right! For example, launch another program in space for military purposes:

The U.S. Army plans to use the technology to seamlessly receive electricity for field camps or outposts in remote places (mountains, deserts, etc.), where it’s hard to deliver mobile generators and other equipment that can generate electricity.

... having fouled on top of a treaty on peaceful space ...

[Kenxnumx]

In hard-to-reach camps, only US military camps? If the technology succeeds, then there are places that have not seen electricity. Many uses. Or in your training manual only about the Pentagon says moo?

[Jerk]

To school! Urgently! When they learn to read in warehouses: "V-ar-mi-and-s-sh-a" - come back, I will explain what these letters mean ... Then - in the second grade, learn to read "the army ordered"

[Kenxnumx]

He graduated from school himself. Read what they write to you "If the technology succeeds." This is R&D. And who ordered it is the third thing. Space rockets also grew out of weapons.

[Zeev Zeev]

What is the Peaceful Outer Space Treaty? The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits the placement of weapons of mass destruction in orbit. Chemistry, biology, vigorous loaves. There is no ban on placing weapons there. Otherwise, Russian cosmonauts violate it by carrying weapons on the ISS. And the USSR with an automatic cannon on the "Salute" ...

[7,62x54]

It will end with a microwave gun to destroy opponents of the American democratic regime.

[Kenxnumx]

Cool if you can implement it.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Ken71

Cool, if you can implement ...

... yeah! In the conditions of cloudiness, fog, precipitation ... In short, in the absence of direct visibility ... And there is also a woodland, all sorts of different smokes (fire, eruption, just smog) ...
Good luck in the next development of the dough ...

[Kenxnumx]

What kind of listeners would you still hunt with clubs. Haha need a bow. The bowstring will break, the stick will break. And also wind, rain, fog, precipitation.

[Alexey Safronov]

Electricity from space ... Call an exorcist ...

[Doctor]

The Tesla affair lives and wins!

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Arzt

The Tesla affair lives and wins!

Tesla suggested other methods of generating electricity (from ether, for example). For clarity (in a real situation), a person sticks an electrode with a device into the ground and receives electrical energy (Tesla coils, Tesla transformers and the like).
In practice, this means one thing - no power lines, no bulky solar panels, no windmills ...

[Vladimir_2U]

Quite simply, "satellite electricity" can be a cover for "atmospheric" electricity, free and generally available.

[BARKAS]

Musk probably gave the idea a lot like him. Another in a row is needed.

[den3080]

Really cool if possible !! It borders on or directly follows the fantastic literature and articles of the army of ufologists about the Egyptian pyramids and all that. Super.

Of course, I first drew a picture with charging the batteries and then resetting where necessary

[knn54]

To transmit 5 GW of power from space, a transmitter in space must have a diameter of about 1 km, and a receiver on Earth - more than 10 km.
This is the transmission of microwave waves of the microwave range with subsequent conversion (on Earth) into e / energy.
The Japanese (at the laboratory level) converted sunlight into laser radiation, which was then converted into e / energy.
But this option on an industrial scale is even more complicated.

[Cheerock]

Two questions:
- What will be the cost of kWh on earth, taking into account the cost of the collector and the EMP generator and its launch into space in comparison with a portable diesel generator?
“How will this thing power the receiver at night?”

[GKS 2111]

I will not answer the first question, because this is not my competence, unfortunately for all of you and me .. I will answer the second question, in the conditions of our planet, it is a battery. In space, there are no familiar concepts of "day, night"

[Cheerock]

Quote: GKS 2111

I will not answer the first question, because this is not my competence, unfortunately for all of you and me .. I will answer the second question, in the conditions of our planet, it is a battery. In space, there are no familiar concepts of "day, night"

This thing should hang in a geostationary orbit and there will also be day and night for solar panels

[den3080]

Quote: CheeRock

Two questions:
- What will be the cost of kWh on earth, taking into account the cost of the collector and the EMP generator and its launch into space in comparison with a portable diesel generator?
“How will this thing power the receiver at night?”

What awkward questions are you asking !!
The main thing is to bring the idea to life. If you started, then you have reason to think that this is possible.
With time, you can figure out the cost, with the development of materials / technologies.

[Cheerock]

This is about anything, but not about cold beer on a hard-to-reach base. Rather, really, a microwave gun.

[Town Hall]

Quote: CheeRock

Two questions:
- What will be the cost of kWh on earth, taking into account the cost of the collector and the EMP generator and its launch into space in comparison with a portable diesel generator?
“How will this thing power the receiver at night?”

In space, day and night?

[Jerk]

It happens. And how. Panels in orbit around the Earth hang out. And the Earth, suddenly - nifiga is not transparent

[Town Hall]

In your leisure time, you would find out how long spacecraft at the DOE make 1 revolution around the earth before getting into a conversation

[Jerk]

You would have realized in your spare time that this is absolutely all the same, because the dark side is still there, which means that there is still no continuous supply of energy. And then the teachers got divorced - they cannot breathe, they don’t know how to read, they also have to think, all that remains is to teach everyone where to get in, where there isn’t ...

[Town Hall]

This discovery is possible for you ... but there are such devices .. the batteries are called

[Jerk]

And there is a pedal drive, you don’t even know what the capacity of the batteries should be to give a constant supply from the station to the ground, or the power supply of one base - this is not a Teslamo with a maximum mileage of 100 km before charging, and in general, why is it easier to place these batteries on the ground, not put them into space ...
It is better to teach that there is no night in space, even in orbit. The night side too. This is easier than thinking.
What else will you please from the unreleased? I give the plot - the base of the US Armed Forces directly in the states to charge from the outlet - on the entire battery. As the batteries run out, turn them on in the USA for recharging.

[Cheerock]

Quote: Jerk

And there is a pedal drive, you don’t even know what the capacity of the batteries should be to give a constant supply from the station to the ground, or the power supply of one base - this is not a Teslamo with a maximum mileage of 100 km before charging, and in general, why is it easier to place these batteries on the ground, not put them into space ...
It is better to teach that there is no night in space, even in orbit. The night side too. This is easier than thinking.
What else will you please from the unreleased? I give the plot - the base of the US Armed Forces directly in the states to charge from the outlet - on the entire battery. As the batteries run out, turn them on in the USA for recharging.

The pedal drive, by the way, is fashionable and environmentally friendly. One platoon pedals all night and for this does not run for a run in the morning.

[Cheerock]

Quote: Jerk

It happens. And how. Panels in orbit around the Earth hang out. And the Earth, suddenly - nifiga is not transparent

Judging by the number of minuses, the contingent believes that the land is flat and transparent.

[Cheerock]

Quote: Town Hall

Quote: CheeRock

Two questions:
- What will be the cost of kWh on earth, taking into account the cost of the collector and the EMP generator and its launch into space in comparison with a portable diesel generator?
“How will this thing power the receiver at night?”

In space, day and night?

The emitter is hanging in a geostationary orbit by a receiver, and now the sun goes beyond the horizon and comes ... what?

[Kettle]

Well, for the sake of truth, the night in geostationary orbit lasts much less than at a point on Earth under the satellite, in the worst case for a satellite - 10 times.
The farther the satellite is from the Earth, the less time it is in its shadow.
But in certain latitudes and time of year, there will be no night on the satellite at all.

[Cheerock]

But the millennials did not know this until you came.
All the same, this does not solve the problem of losses, dispersion, cost and mobility.

[Ural-4320]

Cool abbreviation.
In general, well done: why the hell to keep money in a box, which does not lead to any result? Like in the movie Bad Boys - I have money that rats eat.

[Mountain shooter]

Something I don't like this "research" ... More like a radio frequency weapon. We are talking about microwave radiation of decent intensity. To supply the camp with energy? Or FRY?
Naturally, a stranger?

[Antidote]

A small step to the Dyson sphere

[Egor53]

This is just illiterate nonsense. In order to transfer a power of 1 GW from one orbit to the Earth (one nuclear power unit), it will be necessary to install solar panels with an area of ​​more than 100 square meters in orbit. It is 000 x 000 kilometers. A portrait of Trump on such a battery will be visible to the naked eye, even with very poor eyesight.
But drank dough on this subject s can arrange a grand. A flag in their hands, a feather in ..., and with a fair solar wind.

[Observer2014]

Military ReviewTechnologies
Transmission of electricity without wires - from the beginning to the present
February 24 2017

Who cares to help.
Even in the early 90s I don’t remember Canadians in my opinion. We tested how fashionable it is now a drone. On electric traction. But electricity was supplied to it naturally wirelessly from Earth. The flight time is not limited by anything other than the breakdown of the drone itself or the repeater itself. What can this give the Americans the transfer of electricity from space. You can fantasize a lot.

[iouris]

Tesla (Nikola) is alive?

[igorlvov]

Tesla remembered)

[Second major]

I suggest to throw a cable right on the Sun. Ilona Mask for a note)

[Rostislav Prokopenko]

Tesla already played out once, really want to repeat?

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Ken71

What kind of listeners would you still hunt with clubs. Haha need a bow. The bowstring will break, the stick will break. And also wind, rain, fog, precipitation.

Go to school. In the fifth grade. And they will tell you there that this is not possible in principle.
Educate yourself: https://studbooks.net/1352721/matematika_himiya_fizika/lazernoe_izluchenie_atmosfere

Here we are talking about the properties of laser radiation in the atmosphere.
This- explains that the loss in the atmosphere will make the venture useless. Changing the frequency of the signal from the light range to the radio range will make transmission generally ineffective, since it is impossible to make the beam narrow and highly energetically saturated.
The angle of divergence of the radio signal beam is directly related to the frequency. Smearing a beam onto an area in a soccer field will force you to charge the batteries (which you also need to carry with you, to the same mountains and swamps) for weeks.

[Cheerock]

Quote: wkd dvk

Quote: Ken71

What kind of listeners would you still hunt with clubs. Haha need a bow. The bowstring will break, the stick will break. And also wind, rain, fog, precipitation.

Go to school. In the fifth grade. And they will tell you there that this is not possible in principle.
Educate yourself: https://studbooks.net/1352721/matematika_himiya_fizika/lazernoe_izluchenie_atmosfere

Here we are talking about the properties of laser radiation in the atmosphere.
This- explains that the loss in the atmosphere will make the venture useless. Changing the frequency of the signal from the light range to the radio range will make transmission generally ineffective, since it is impossible to make the beam narrow and highly energetically saturated.
The angle of divergence of the radio signal beam is directly related to the frequency. Smearing a beam onto an area in a soccer field will force you to charge the batteries (which you also need to carry with you, to the same mountains and swamps) for weeks.

The millennials are above these hardened prejudices of yours! On YouTube they say, you can, began to be - you can!

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Egor53

This is just illiterate nonsense. In order to transfer a power of 1 GW from one orbit to the Earth (one nuclear power unit), it will be necessary to install solar panels with an area of ​​more than 100 square meters in orbit. It is 000 x 000 kilometers. A portrait of Trump on such a battery will be visible to the naked eye, even with very poor eyesight.
But drank dough on this subject s can arrange a grand. A flag in their hands, a feather in ..., and with a fair solar wind.

It should be added to the above that it is not possible to concentrate RADIOLUCH on a small area. The divergence angle is directly related to the frequency of the radio. Irradiation of the tectar even with gigawatt power and the use of antennas of reasonable size (tens of square meters) on Earth will allow us to take energy in thousandths of a percent of the sent. And these are weeks of charging batteries from earth saboteurs disguised in mountains or swamps.

[Cheerock]

Quote: wkd dvk

And these are weeks of charging batteries from earth saboteurs disguised in mountains or swamps.

Write some incomprehensible garbage. You will now be told that if you put the helicopter on the priest and dig it up against the wind, then you can generate energy like in Holland.

[Polite Moose]

Quote: CheeRock

what if the helicopter put on the priest and dig up against the wind

The Russian Orthodox Church will be categorically against it.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: CheeRock

Write some incomprehensible garbage

Everything is simple and clear there. It is argued that an energy transfer idea in itself is a bad idea.

Quote: CheeRock

if you put the helicopter on the priest and dig it upwind ...

... and when the wind changes - dig, turn and dig again

[region58]

Quote: Golovan Jack

Quote: CheeRock
if you put the helicopter on the priest and dig it upwind ...

... and when the wind changes

And just for this, pop is needed. Let the wind and turn ....

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Ken71

He graduated from school himself. Read what they write to you "If the technology succeeds." This is R&D. And who ordered it is the third thing. Space rockets also grew out of weapons.

Only complete idiots will organize OCD on the principles of energy transfer, which contradict the basics, annals of the electric power industry and radio transmission.

[Depytat]

Quote: Vkd dvk

Only complete idiots will organize OCD on the principles of energy transfer, which contradict the basics, annals of the electric power industry and radio transmission.

Even from a radio wave you can get a power source, an antenna plus a simple circuit, the thing is what kind of power you need. Take it easy, they are not going to build a nuclear power station in a megawatt

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: CheeRock

The millennials are above these hardened prejudices of yours! On YouTube they say, you can, began to be - you can!

Sorry. I did not bother to dive into this cesspool of knowledge.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: CheeRock

Write some incomprehensible garbage. You will now be told that if you put the helicopter on the priest and dig it up against the wind, then you can generate energy like in Holland.

To dig a helicopter in space orbit?

[Cheerock]

Quote: wkd dvk

To dig a helicopter in space orbit?

The progressive young generation claims that if it is on a low support and against the solar wind, then it will turn out even better and more technologically than than just going to the ground

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Rostislav Prokopenko

Tesla already played out once, really want to repeat?

If Nicola hadn’t done shit and tricks, she would have entered the textbooks to the fullest. Copperfield of the last century.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Town Hall

In your leisure time, you would find out how long spacecraft at the DOE make 1 revolution around the earth before getting into a conversation

And how much? The second question is how to find the place where you need to pull a kilo of Watts of energy in this short period of time? The third question is what should be the power of the emitter in orbit in order to be able to charge the battery on Earth, having lost almost 100% of energy in transport? The fourth question is, what kind of antenna should be in orbit in order to concentrate the radio beam to an acceptable size, the area it irradiates on Earth? The fifth question is, what should be the receiving antenna to catch the right amount of energy in that short period of time the satellite is above the head?
The sixth question is whether it would not be wiser and easier to carry not this nonsense with you, but an elementary gas generator weighing 10 kg and power enough to charge the batteries for several hours?

[Demon_is_ada]

Victor
I think this is an attempt to create and test a weapon disguised as good intentions.
Guidance systems are on spy satellites, optics
Powerful drives with huge instant return
Pulse emitters of huge power
And it is in this version that it makes sense - the maximum surface burns for drugs, by the way they have "non-lethal" weapons to disperse the crowd, microwave and for a long time, and at least - disabling the enemy's electronics, and a large coverage area is only a plus
And the absurdity of the idea for allegedly charging batteries you perfectly defeated in your post

[Basarev]

To capture in sufficient volume and successfully process such an amount of energy, a Colossal battery will be required. And for her, a proportionate carrier. Have Americans decided to build a Venator, or what?

[AU Ivanov.]

Key phrase:
"The corporation has already received a little more than $ 100 million for the work."
And here we started a discussion: take off - will not take off, focus - not focus.
Look at the root.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Demon_is_ada

Victor
I think this is an attempt to create and test a weapon disguised as good intentions.
Guidance systems are on spy satellites, optics
Powerful drives with huge instant return
Pulse emitters of huge power
And it is in this version that it makes sense - the maximum surface burns for drugs, by the way they have "non-lethal" weapons to disperse the crowd, microwave and for a long time, and at least - disabling the enemy's electronics, and a large coverage area is only a plus
And the absurdity of the idea for allegedly charging batteries you perfectly defeated in your post

Everything can be done decisively. Even wear pants over your head. The point is the simplicity of manufacture, ease of maintenance (do not forget that there are no specialists with three higher educations serving equipment in white coats and dust masks), reliability, small size and ease of carrying.
As they say, the needle in the campaign is heavy. To tie up your battle group, the devil knows where, to make it dependent on the orbit of the passage of satellites, time and weather, replacing the simplest device, worked out for centuries, by a dynamo with these bells and whistles ......

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Chaldon48

I do not envy staff who will be in the vicinity of these energy receivers.

And, even more so, if ours still throw heat. Or an American poker stole, so that they could not skew to where they needed to.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Depytat

Quote: Vkd dvk

Only complete idiots will organize OCD on the principles of energy transfer, which contradict the basics, annals of the electric power industry and radio transmission.

Even from a radio wave you can get a power source, an antenna plus a simple circuit, the thing is what kind of power you need. Take it easy, they are not going to build a nuclear power station in a megawatt

I would not neglect the rules of writing in Russian. And if you have a runny nose, lie down in bed and take medical treatment.
You’re not used to rushing, and you suggest, by your example, recharging batteries in the field for many weeks. And let the war wait. And something simple and tasteful. Connect the detector receiver to the battery and enjoy.

[Grigory Laguta]

Yeah, that means generators cannot be delivered to hard-to-reach areas,
and there’s no problem converting something into electric energy?