Ilona Mask's rockets will help. Eka plans to build a solar power plant in space: what is known

According to a representative of the European Space Agency (ECA), Ilona SpaceX missiles can reduce the cost of launching the necessary equipment into space. Astronaut Timothy Peak, who works in ECA, believes that the creation of a solar power plant in space in the form of a set of solar panels is already absolutely real, writes The Guardian. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Timothy Peak is the first astronaut from the United Kingdom to visit the International Space Station, as well as the first among the British came into open space. He now works in ECA and believes that the cost of launching thousands of tons of equipment into a low Earth orbit becomes absolutely real due to the reduction of the cost of such launches.

That is, it is possible to send such structures as solar power plants in space in the near future, consisting of many solar panels in order to receive a lot of energy of our star. ECA is already conducting two research on this and scientists hope to provide the EU government in 2025 economic justification for the construction of a space power plant.

According to Pika, the creation of such power plants will be profitable if the cost of starting 1 kg of cargoes in Earth orbit does not exceed $ 1,000. So far, as the peak says, the cost of starting 1 kg of cargo is $ 2,700, but with the help of Ilona Mask SpaceX missiles such as Falcon Heavy and Starship, it will drop to $ 1500 and $ 300 respectively.

So far, Falcon Heavy rocket sets into space only satellites, and the Starship rocket is still in the process of revision, because in April, this during the test flight, it exploded, as focus has already wrote. We remind you that in June new tests of engines of this megaroade, as focus already wrote. A distinctive feature of these Ilon Mask space missiles is that they can return to the ground after starting and are multiple. And this reduces the total cost of launching goods into space.

The new ECA program called Solaris is aimed at creating solar power plants in space by automatically connecting into low Earth orbit of solar panels. If such power plants can produce electricity only in the daylight, they will not have such restrictions in space. Solar energy can be harvested around the clock. According to Pick, it is possible to transfer energy from space to land power plants with microwave.