NewTrans2.txt[9/15/2024 8:28:26 PM] important place to the SPS in the future Conference. CONCLUSIONS - Solar energy collecting satellites (SPS) can contribute to providing for the energy needs of our planet. - We are on a spaceship, it has been said many times. But the planning of the concept of a spaceship includes an Energy chapter where the inventory of needs, and the study of energy sources as well as distributions are carried out for the entire spaceship. - The spaceship of the planet Earth has the particularity that its electrical planning has been done until now on a national basis, that is to say compartmentalized. - The time has come for a global planning of the electrical resources of our Planet, and an assessment of its needs and their evolution in the next 10-20 years. - The SPS can contribute to this global planning in a concrete and practical way. The United Nations (UN) should be able to assume the organization of this fascinating new field of international space cooperation. References 1. The Solar Power Satellite Concept; the past Decade and the next Decade, by Christopher C. Kraft junior. Director, Johnson Space Center, Houston (Texas), American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fifteenth Meeting, July 1979 (JSC-14898). This report constitutes the main technical basis from which this presentation is derived. 2. Grumman Aerospace Company, Bethpage (NY). 3. General Dynamics Corporation. 4. Solar Power Satellites and International Co-operation, statement by B. Châtel at the SUNSAT Energy Council, New York, 2 March 1979 published in Space Solar Power, Volume I, No. 2, page 4, August 1979; P.O. Box 903, Columbia, Maryland 21044. 5. Solar Power Stations in Space, background paper prepared by the Secretariat, United Nations, Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space ((A/AC.I05/(XIX)/CRP.l of 1 June 1976). 6. Satellite Power System (SPS) Concept Development and Evaluation Program Plan; July 1977-August 1980, February 1978 prepared by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Department of Energy; DOE/ET-0034. 7. Satellite Power System; Concept Development and Evaluation Program by U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; October 1978; DOE/ER-0023. 8. Solar Power Satellite; Hearings before the Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications of the Committee on Science and Technology U.S. House of Representatives Ninety-Sixth Congress First Session; March 28, 29, 30 1979; No. 15. 9. Space Shuttle: Dawn of an Era; Construction of Large Structures in Space by Richard L. Kline, Grumman Aerospace Corporation; Bethpage, New York; October 29-November I; Paper 79-267. 10. International Astronautical Federation (I.A.F.) XXX Congress; Manned Remote Work Station—Safety and Rescue Considerations by C. Allan Nathan, Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, NY; Munich 16-22 September 1979. 11. Space Construction Bases for Solar Power Satellites and Near Term Technology Steps by Richard L. Kline,
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