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Is space-based solar power realistic?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Solar Panel Repairs in the International Space Station

The hostile environment in space is not a nice place to be for humans or for solar panels. I don't know that we have good technology available currently for that sort of delicate, like going to a very particular spot in space, kind of job. And so i don't know what it would actually take if you wanted to have a human go to repair your space base solar panel. Yes, we'll talk in the next segment about the idea of how to do these kinds of repairs and what it might entail,. and wat's going on with the economics when we talked to pert, who's really excited about the prospects of it.

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