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Preliminary analysis and simulation of a multi-stage pointing system for wireless power transmission.
Rel. Stefano Mauro, Domenico Edoardo Sfasciamuro, Matteo Melchiorre, Laura Salamina. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Mechatronic Engineering (Ingegneria Meccatronica), 2025
Abstract
Major space agencies plan to establish permanent lunar bases by the 2030s, spearheaded by NASA’s Artemis program. NASA has identified the Moon’s South Pole as the ideal location for the future Base Camp, owing to its potential access to ice and continuous illumination. One of the significant challenges to be solved is power generation, as the peculiarities of the lunar environment make solar power unreliable as the sole power source, while alternatives such as nuclear power come with drawbacks of their own. The startup ORiS has proposed a novel solution to achieve continuous power delivery to the lunar soil: a constellation of satellites equipped with solar panels, that would accumulate energy along the orbit and transmit it to a receiver located on the surface with a high-power laser system.
The transmission distance of about 1000 km requires controlling the mirror which deflects the laser beam with sub-microradian accuracy, a requirement far more stringent than what a typical satellite attitude control system (ACS) can achieve
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