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Originally Posted by glenc
The Space Islands Group of California expects to have a prototype in orbit in 2009 delivering a steady 10-25 megawatt beam to where it's needed most
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What is the collector size needed to develop 25 megawatts from solar, and what would be the angular size in a geosynchronous orbit assuming a round profile? Consider that the collector would be at opposition at around midnight, and then consider the magnitude of an Iridium flare. Extrapolate.
I hope that nobodies favourite target for imaging is equatorial!
Edit: 152m diameter for a circular solar array of 18,300 square metres at 1366 watts per square metre to deliver 25 megawatts. Angular size 0.78 arc seconds. That's going to be one bright pin point.