Back to the Longest Night Festival
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Participants
- Brandon CS Sanders
- Ben Sibelman
- Keith Lofstrom ... convener
Discussion
Keith's plans
- Keith: To develop long-term space projects, find profitable ventures at multiple steps from startup to finished product
- Server Sky
- Tracking very small space junk with small Server Sky-style arrays
- Space-based solar
- Launch Loop
- People who need sudden bursts of power, which the utility won't provide
- Load-leveling ex. thermal power plants
- Eventually load-leveling the Pacific Rim
- Pipeline would be about 16 times the mass of the Alaska pipeline but store much more energy
Ideas for SolSeed's potential space company
- We'll find people, Keith will find people, and some of those we find will be more suited to Keith's projects and vice versa
- Domains will be close but non-overlapping
- Cube-sats
- Naval Academy is running a program with cube-sats to give their students training with satellite management
- AmSat (amateur radio cube-sat group) gets to use them for their radio stuff
- 2/3 of space in each cube-sat can be bought to fill with whatever you want