This one-minute video highlights the Spacefaring Institute’s vision of the exciting future ahead for Americans as America leads a spacefaring industrial revolution to tap the immense resources of outer space to provide worldwide sustainable, prosperous living using astroelectricity.
Achieving “Freedom from Want” using astroelectricity
This one-minute, narrated video introduces how space solar power-generated astroelectricity has the potential to provide the world with the abundant green energy needed to end poverty, achieving “Freedom from Want”.
Two videos explaining space solar power
The coming age of astroelectricity
The potential of space solar power-generated astroelectricity to supply the world with abundant clean energy is explained in this 10-minute video presentation prepared and narrated by Mr. Mike Snead, Professional Engineer and president and founder of the Spacefaring Institute LLC. He presented this video as part of the June 2021 Space Renaissance International 3rd World Congress 2021.
Sustainably powering the world with space solar power
Mr. Mike Snead, Professional Engineer and president and founder of the Spacefaring Institute LLC, was invited on 14 July 2023 to present at a workshop on space solar power hosted by the European Space Agency. Mr. Snead provided this highly-visual, narrated video—personally prepared by Mr. Snead—for his presentation. In this video, Mr. Snead quantitatively explains why wind power and ground solar power are not practicable solutions for the world to “go clean” with renewable energy. Mr. Snead then quantitatively explains how space solar power can meet the world’s need for abundant clean energy to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Mr. Snead also proposed and illustrates how a commercialized version of the unmanned cargo version of the Space Launch System can be used to begin to build the low Earth orbit astrologistics infrastructure needed to “jump start” the upcoming “Spacefaring Age”.
Assessment of U.S. Sustainable Energy Needs and Transition Options
Mike Snead, PE, president of the Spacefaring Institute™ LLC, published a comprehensive “Assessment of U.S. Sustainable Energy Needs and Transition Options”. This assessment explains why space solar power-supplied astroelectricity is the only practicable option for America to fully transition from fossil carbon fuels.
The full report is available for free download from ResearchGate here.
A 34-page Summary and Conclusions of the full report is also available for free download from ResearchGate here.
Building an American astrologistics infrastructure
A peak at what America’s exciting spacefaring future can be!
This short video provides examples of the type of astrologistics capabilities the United States can build using the Space Launch System.
This article explains the concepts illustrated in the above video. (Click to open in a new window.)
Spacefaring Institute’s Mission and Vision
To remember what America can do, that no one else has yet done.
Spacefaring Institute’s Vision
Transforming America into a true commercial spacefaring nation
with robust, effective, and efficient
human spacefaring operational capabilities
throughout the central solar system.
Spacefaring Institute’s Mission
In partnership with America’s aerospace industry, establish
an American integrated commercial astrologistics infrastructure
providing “aircraft-like” safety and operability
throughout the central solar system
to enable commercial human spacefaring enterprise.