Tennessee Valley Stellar Corporation

Community-Scale Private Space Agency

The ultimate aim of the nonprofit Stellarcorp is to prove that a feasible space-based method exists to forestall catastrophic climate change, to be used in extremis, by artificially cooling the earth with a school of planetary sunshades flying in non-Keplerian radiation-levitated orbits sunwards of the Sun-Earth Lagrange-1 point (SEL1(lev)).

The full-size Dyson Dot concept was conceived 23 years ago and introduced at Asilomar in April 2001, and at Stanford University’s EE380 webcast in November of 2001. It was first publicly revealed in the Summer 2001 issue of Whole Earth Review, again in 2012 in Acta Astronautica.  The first complete systems engineering study, mass budget, and economic justification appeared in full in the January 2013 issue of Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and is still the authoritative paper in this field.