Optomechatronics OMEGA design project of SSPS with MWPT and omnidirectional scanning antenna

Abstract

<p indent="0mm">Owing to the difficulties and shortcomings of the OMEGA design of the space solar power station, this study proposes an optomechatronics OMEGA design project. First, a spherical crown (instead of the whole sphere) is utilized to collect the parallel sunlight, which is focused on the top-shaped line feed. The DC energy is sent to the transmission antenna. Thus, the problem of designing a special membrane, which is semi-transmitting and semi-reflecting for the sunlight and meanwhile transparent for the microwave, could be avoided. Then, the electric brush with ultra-large DC power is replaced with the traditional DC transfer method to overcome the critical problem of lower reliability. Next, using the omnidirectional scanning antenna, an electric propulsion technique is introduced to adjust the crown pose to replace the control system of the line-feed moving. Afterward, employing a bionic butterflying technology with topology optimization to radiate the massive heat to the cold space resulted in an innovative cooler, checking for both requirements of a bigger radiation size and an ultra-low selfweight, simultaneously.