About Orbital Solar Relay
Space-based solar power has been drawn the same way since 1978: single-weight axonometric figures and engineering plates set onto the deep navy of orbital night. The content is unglamorous and specific — 2.45 GHz down to a 10 × 13 km elliptical rectenna, 23 mW/cm² at beam centre, under 1 mW/cm² outside the fenceline.
This system rebuilds that plate. Archivo carries the Helvetica-bold heading hierarchy of a federal reference report; Courier Prime carries the body, as if typed on a Selectric. Yellow belongs to incident sunlight and beam-power callouts. The array blankets stay silicon blue-grey, exactly as the 1970s concept paintings render them.
- Origin
- United States and Europe
- Era
- proposed 1968; DOE/NASA Satellite Power System programme 1977–1980 (Reference System Report, October 1978); revived 2022–present
- Key figures
- Peter Glaser · John Mankins · Sanjay Vijendran
- Movements
- SPS Reference System design · microwave power transmission engineering · US federal technical report typography
Orbital Solar Relay design spec
Colors
Typography
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