Another science fiction scenario or real?
Lots of questions come to my mind about things like is this safe, can this be economical, is it scalable…? Looks like ESA believes in it though.
The European Space Agency (ESA) will this week likely approve a three-years study to see if having huge solar farms in space could work and be cost effective.
“Josef Aschbacher, who is ESA's director general, told BBC News that he believed that solar power from space could be of ''enormous'' help to address future energy shortages.”
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62982113
Satellites with solar panels would need to be around 1.7km long - more than double the size of the world's tallest building and an order of magnitude bigger than the current largest structure in space, which is the International Space Station, measuring 110m:
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