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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. yencab+op5[view] [source] 2025-10-23 22:36:18
>>Reuben+o1
Figure 3 shows they're hoping to have a 4km x 4km combo solar panel and radiator. The main truss of ISS is 110 meters long.

These plans are so much larger than anything built so far that they're scifi.

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