China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.
So far it just looks like a proposal, but a lot of prior research has been done on the subject already. NASA has a number of studies discussing efficiency, costs, etc. I imagine they’ll do a trial experiment first, and then depending on how that goes they’ll decide whether to scale it up or not.
I’m guessing they’ve done at least basic cost/benefit analysis here. :)
sure, but what I’m asking is, is it an actual power plant or a research project?
So far it just looks like a proposal, but a lot of prior research has been done on the subject already. NASA has a number of studies discussing efficiency, costs, etc. I imagine they’ll do a trial experiment first, and then depending on how that goes they’ll decide whether to scale it up or not.
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