A company hoping to launch the first solar farm into space has passed a critical milestone with a prototype on Earth. Oxfordshire-based Space Solar plans to power more than a million homes by the 2030s with mile-wide complex of mirrors and solar panels orbiting 22,000 miles above the planet.
But Mr Soltau revealed the company is in talks with SpaceX about using Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. An estimated 68 launches would be needed to carry a kit of parts that would then be assembled by robots into a power station in orbit. The rocket is also expected to dramatically reduce the cost of taking anything into orbit to as little as 1% of what it did just 20 years ago. 'It's a complete game changer,' said Mr Soltau.
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