0191-9067/80/030255-01$02.00/0 Copyright ® 1980 SUNS AT Energy Council SATELLITE POWER SYSTEM PROGRAM REVIEW JOHN W. FREEMAN Rice University Houston, TX 77001 The Third Annual DOE/NASA SPS Program Review Symposium was held in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 22-25, 1980. Several hundred persons attended including individuals from Europe and China. The first and last days of the meeting were plenary sessions with overview or summary papers by key individuals. The middle two days consisted of several parallel subsessions in small meeting rooms as well as overview sessions. An important impression from the meeting was the large quantity of high quality papers presented and the plethora of activity concerning SPS. This activity is particularly impressive considering the modest funding available for SPS research. It is a tribute to the DOE and the NASA program offices. Several speakers the first day commented on the breadth of the SPS concept evaluation program and its milestone as an approach to new energy technology evaluation. The general session the first day consisted of introductory remarks by Fred Koomanoff and Mike Riches, followed by overview papers by Peter Glaser, Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Ray Williamson, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress; N. Douglas Pewitt, Department of Energy; Carl Schwenk, NASA Headquarters; Bernard Stein, National Science Foundation; National Academy of Science; Fred Koomanoff, DOE; A.R. Valentino, Argonne National Laboratories; C.E. Bloom- quist, Planning Research Corp.; Mike Riches, Department of Energy; K.K. Reinhartz, European Space Agency; and K. Dybol, St. Olaf College. On the second and third days, in addition to general sessions, parallel subsessions were held in the areas of Systems Definition, Environmental Assessment, Societal Assessment, and Comparative Assessment. These smaller subsessions provided an opportunity for substantial exchange of ideas and more in depth discussions of SPS concept evaluation details. These sessions were well attended and highly successful. The final day consisted of a general session focusing on Comparative Assessment and a Summary of the Symposium by Fred Koomanoff. The meeting was highlighted by a banquet and luncheons. Dr. Jack Eddy of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the banquet speaker, presented an informative and entertaining talk, “The Sun And Man.” A book of abstracts of the papers presented at the symposium was available to all participants. Copies of this book can be obtained by writing to Dr. Dave L. Christensen, Johnson Environmental and Energy Center, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, P.O. Box 1247, Huntsville, AL 35807. The symposium was hosted by the Nebraska Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and organized very ably by the Johnson Environmental Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville.
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