  To collect additional solar energy during the hours of darkness and to
overcome the limited Terrestrial solar power due to the diurnal day night
cycle, the concept of a Geostationary Tethered Collecting Solar Power Satellite
System has been proposed by several authors in the last years. This tethered
system consists of a long tether used to link two bodies: a single large panel
with a capability of collecting solar energy, and an Earth-pointing microwave
transmitting satellite. In this manner, the solar energy would be collected
directly from the space and beamed back down to any point on Earth. Planar
configurations, when the panel and the microwave transmitting satellite are
placed on geostationary orbits, have been usually investigated to maintain the
tethered system around the Earth. However, this configuration implies that the
panel and the microwave transmitting satellite must to orbit the Earth in
exactly the same orbital plane of all geostationary satellites.
