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1. Reuben+o1[view] [source] 2025-10-22 11:34:42
>>jonbae+(OP)
Last time these folks were mentioned on HN, there was a lot of skepticism that this is really possible to do. The issue is cooling: in space, you can't rely on convection or conduction to do passive cooling, so you can only radiate away heat. However, the radiator would need to be several kilometers big to provide enough cooling, and obviously launching such a large object into space would therefore eat up any cost savings from the "free" solar power.

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2. petese+63[view] [source] 2025-10-22 11:46:20
>>Reuben+o1
Their website pitches it as 16 square km
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3. perihe+l4[view] [source] 2025-10-22 11:57:14
>>petese+63
There's already about 0.4 square km of solar panels across the Starlink constellation. (~4,000 v2 satellites at ~100 meter^2 each).
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4. LunaSe+bk[view] [source] 2025-10-22 13:20:41
>>perihe+l4
This project seems 40x larger than all of Starlink's constellation combined. So quite huge.
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