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.
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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