In Japan, conducted a successful experiment on the wireless transmission of energy for the space project

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries engineers conducted a successful experiment on wireless power transmission at the industrial level. One of the customers of the work is the company Japan Space Systems, which is engaged in the implementation of a scientific project on the transmission of solar energy. The program is sponsored by the Minister of Economy of Japan and is called Space solar power systems (SSPS). According to the project, the end result should be the appearance of special satellites in Earth orbit, which will actually be solar batteries and at the same time transmitters of energy to Earth.

The experiment so far wore a purely “earthly” character both at the place of its conduct and at the distance to which energy was transmitted. Engineers installed a transmitter and a receiver of energy at a distance of 500 meters between them:




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The transmission power was 10 kW and was transmitted in the form of microwave radiation. The LED indicator installed on the receiver signaled to the engineers that the transmission had ended successfully. Aft of the very fact of transmission, a special system of orientation of the energy beam in space was checked in order not to dissipate it into space without any benefit.

The SPSS program - with an eye on which the experiment was performed - implies that energy will be transferred from the geostationary orbit of the Earth in the form of microwave or laser radiation. Its receiver will be special stations that are planning to build on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. Similar projects were planned by American scientists in the 60s of the last century, but they have only been in serious development since 2009.

The presentation of the SPSS program can be viewed on the video: