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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for performing shape estimation using sun sensors in large-scale space-based solar power stations
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Application No.: US15233776Application Date: 2016-08-10
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Publication No.: US10454565B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Sergio Pellegrino , Seyed Ali Hajimiri , Harry A. Atwater , Thibaud Talon
- Applicant: California Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US CA Pasadena
- Assignee: California Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: California Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Pasadena
- Agency: KPPB LLP
- Main IPC: H04B7/185
- IPC: H04B7/185 ; H03F3/19 ; H02S40/30 ; H04B7/06 ; H04L25/08 ; H04L27/152 ; H04L27/26 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/24 ; H03F3/45 ; H03F3/68 ; B64G1/42

Abstract:
A space-based solar power station, a power generating satellite module and/or a method for collecting solar radiation and transmitting power generated using electrical current produced therefrom is provided. Power transmitters can be coordinated as a phased array and the power generated by the phased array is transmitted to one or more power receivers to achieve remote wireless power generation and delivery. In many embodiments, a reference signal is distributed within the space-based solar power station to coordinate the phased array. In several embodiments, determinations of the relative locations of the antennas in the array are generated by an array of sun sensors that estimate the shape of the module to evaluate the phase shift and/or amplitude modulation to apply to the reference signal at each power transmitter.
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