China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.
Orbiting solar power plants definitely seems like a step towards space elevators and related capabilities. They are testing some maglev space launchers too. Eventually solar array can be beaming power down to launch site to power up mag launchers. Hell yeah!
This is the seed that blossoms into a Dyson Sphrear, isn’t it?
I hope they build the first one in the shape of
Orbiting solar power plants definitely seems like a step towards space elevators and related capabilities. They are testing some maglev space launchers too. Eventually solar array can be beaming power down to launch site to power up mag launchers. Hell yeah!
I love this artist’s stuff
And make it visible from space.
elevators are a huge materials science problem for the tether, i’m not sure one space station has much more related to that than another.