Press Release
Source: Space Frontier Foundation
NYACK, NY, October 8 - A National Security Space Office (NSSO)-led study group, which has been investigating space-based solar power (SBSP) as a way to reduce our dependence on foreign-controlled energy supplies as well as a clean, renewable and carbon-neutral solution to the possibility of global warming, is set to announce the study results on October 10th. The study also examined the feasibility of SBSP as a source of energy to be transmitted to military forces deployed overseas.
A press event will announce the SBSP study results, as well as the existence of a new alliance to support the development of this promising technology, as follows:
Date: Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007
Time: 9:00am-10:30am
Location: National Press Club
First Amendment Lounge
529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045
Speakers:
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo Astronaut and Chairman, ShareSpace Foundation
John Mankins, President, Space Power Association
Lt. Col. Paul Damphousse (USMC), National Security Space Office
Charles Miller, Director, Space Frontier Foundation
More information on SBSP can be found at http://ssp.space-frontier.org. This website was sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation to gather broad public input for the NSSO-led study.
The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Our goals include protecting the Earth’s fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space.
For more information, contact Margo Deckard at 937-376-8737 or mardeckard@aol.com.
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