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S-76-24322
Author: G
S-79-35471
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In Orbit
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S75-33892
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Gamma Centaur
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Orbiting Lunar Station
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Sol Dember
Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961
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Purple Pigeon
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Boeing Art Department
Pioneer G
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Module Configuration
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SPS
In the aftermath of the ’70s oil crisis, Boeing designed a solar power satellite system that could supply most of the the United States with electricity. Boeing’s plan envisioned satellites the size of small cities placed in geosynchronous orbit, transmitting electrical energy back to Earth as microwaves. The satellites would either be constructed in low Earth orbit for later deployment into a higher orbit or constructed directly at the higher orbit.
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