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March 2nd 06, 08:51 PM
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latest solar power satellite designs
I stumbled across a 1998 paper in which the writer said thin-film
photovoltaics and improved designs could lead to a 10-fold decrease in mass for SPSs. I seem to recall a 50,000-ton estimate for an SPS proposed by Gerard K. O'Neill, though I can't recall the estimated power output. Could a state of the art 5,000-ton SPS perform as well as O'Neill's design? 
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