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 Message 848 
 Paul Hayton to Roger Nelson 
 Re: Interestig article 
 14 Mar 15 08:57:06 
 
On 03/13/15, Roger Nelson pondered and said...
 
 RN> The idea, said the JAXA spokesman, would be for microwave-transmitting
 RN> solar satellites -- which would have sunlight-gathering panels and
 RN> antennae -- to be set up about 36,000 kilometres (22,300 miles) from the
 RN> earth. 

Interesting... I wonder how they could ever hope to keep an array such as
that in space in alignment with the reciever technology on earth. I guess
ideally you would want several of these in space so we were not dependant on
just one.

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