RAEng -Technical Briefing: From 'smart dust' monitoring to energy from space - what are the next innovative advances in space technology?

This webinar explores a range of emerging space technologies which could enable new ways to monitor the space environment, in-orbit space fabrication, increase solar power farms output, and reduce the scale of future space ventures to Near Earth Asteroids.

This talk will explore a range of emerging technologies which could enable new space services including; swarms of ‘smart dust’ devices to monitor the space environment; in-orbit fabrication of large space structures; ultra-lightweight orbiting solar reflectors to reflect sunlight onto terrestrial solar power farms to boost their output; near Earth asteroids as a resource to reduce the scale of future space ventures by utilising material already at the top of the Earth’s deep gravity well.