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They're Making Solar Panels... Work at Night. (youtu.be)
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Only evening hours actually, but pretty cool idea.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

is that each mirror or when they work together?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's for a single one but at tens of MW even a bunch of satellites isn't going to get solar panels to produce an appreciable amount of power.

This video goes into the details of what kind of performance we can expect from the constellation