A space photovoltaic power generation system including a plurality of power
satellites arranged in space, each of which converts electrical energy,
into which sunlight has been photoelectric-converted, into a microwave,
and transmits the microwave to an electric power base. The space
photovoltaic power generation system divides the plurality of power
satellites into a number of power satellite groups and adjusts the amount
of phase adjustment to be made to a microwave which each of the plurality
of power satellites included in each power satellite group will transmit
so that a plurality of microwaves from the plurality of power satellites
included in each power satellite group are in phase with one another. The
beamwidth of the plurality of microwaves can be reduced without increasing
the area of the aperture of a transmission antenna of each of the
plurality of power satellites. If the plurality of microwaves transmitted
from the plurality of power satellites included in each power satellite
group interfere with microwaves transmitted from any other power satellite
group, the beamwidth is reduced. To avoid the reduction in the beamwidth,
each of the plurality of power satellites included in each power satellite
group modulates the phase-adjusted microwave so as to generate an
incoherent microwave so that the microwave does not interfere with other
microwaves transmitted from any other power satellite group.