IECL's Ian Cash talks to Wired.com about the anticipated launch of the US Air Force's secret space plane, X-37B, for a long-duration mission in low Earth orbit.

Ian Cash, of SICA Design Ltd (design arm of IECL), presented a new Solar Power Satellite (SPS) concept during the Space Solar Power Workshop of the IEEE WiSEE conference held in Montreal.

Today’s agenda for space is no longer focused on merely getting there. The modern space race is about getting the engineering in place to exploit space-based solar power (SBSP). But how will energy be beamed back down to Earth without breaking the bank?

There is currently a big buzz around space-based solar power (SBSP) in R&D departments and space agencies around the world. The reality of affordable, safe SBSP seems to be getting closer by the day, and there are a number of different systems in development that have the potential to deliver SBSP within a couple of decades…

A new Solar Power Satellite (SPS) concept has been advocated and dubbed CASSIOPeiA, short for Constant Aperture, Solid-State, Integrated, Orbital Phased Array)...