alt Hacker NewsAnd also cheaper than launching stuff into space. This may have been approved but that's a long ways off from actual viability.
And also cheaper than launching stuff into space. This may have been approved but that's a long ways off from actual viability.
Launching a gossamer thin mirror in space is not very expensive. Broad strokes claiming anything launched to space is going to be a more expensive solution has to level with the fact that GPS and quite a lot of telecommunications and Earth observation seem to have incredible leverage if launched to space instead of just using ground based solutions.