Building the solar power farm in space would take more than 60 rocket flights and a team of robot builders - but it's one step closer to being a reality.
A company hoping to launch the first solar farm into space has passed a critical milestone with a prototype on Earth. Oxfordshire-based Space Solar plans to power more than a million homes by the 2030s with mile-wide complex of mirrors and solar panels orbiting 22,000 miles above the planet.
' More from Sky News:Moon to get its own time zoneWhy the upcoming total eclipse is unique Until recently any thought of building a 2,000-tonne solar power station in space has been dismissed as science fiction. But Mr Soltau revealed the company is in talks with SpaceX about using Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. An estimated 68 launches would be needed to carry a kit of parts that would then be assembled by robots into a power station in orbit.
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