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Record W4408811060 · doi:10.1016/j.cja.2025.103510

A novel Dyson-Harrop CubeSat for harvesting energy in solar wind

2025· article· en· W4408811060 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueChinese Journal of Aeronautics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSpacecraft Design and Technology
Canadian institutionsYork University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCubeSatSolar windWind powerEnergy harvestingPhysicsAerospace engineeringEnergy (signal processing)EngineeringElectrical engineeringPlasma

Abstract

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This paper presents a novel design for a Dyson-Harrop CubeSat aimed at harvesting energy from the solar wind. Unlike current photovoltaic-based satellite energy generation , the Dyson-Harrop satellite generates energy based on the photoelectric effect , which has the potential to achieve significantly higher efficiency than current photovoltaic technology . The proposed CubeSat system consists of three main components: a tether unit, an energy harvesting unit, and the central 3U CubeSat body. The tether unit generates a cylindrical magnetic field along its main tether, effectively concentrating electrons from the solar wind to the energy harvesting unit. The energy harvesting unit includes a spherical electron receiver, functioning as a capacitor, which attracts electrons from the solar wind, as well as an annular flat solar sail that captures photons in the solar wind to eject electrons via the photoelectric effect , resulting in an electric current in the system. The Dyson-Harrop CubeSat is shown to be highly efficient as an energy-generation system, producing approximately 1 kW of power by a 3U CubeSat. This energy can be transmitted via microwave beams to other spacecraft or ground stations on the Earth. It is important to note that this estimation is based on first-principle estimations, and thorough theoretical analysis and experimental validation are required to confirm the feasibility of the concept.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.668
Threshold uncertainty score0.567

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it