Star Raker! - The Giant Insane Mach 7.2 Space Plane

Special thanks: Support Me: Discord to chat with me: Website: In the 1970s America faced increasingly worse energy shortages. It’s main source of petroleum had ground to a halt thanks to the international crisis in Iran and the Middle East, and nuclear had been ruled out after two high-profile nuclear meltdowns. NASA pitched series of 60 gigantic geosynchronous platforms orbiting the planet, beaming down refined energy for the world’s use. It was called the Solar Power System and would be comprised of a global network of gigantic photovoltaic arrays. And they were huge, with two long solar panel structures 5 km long by 4 km wide, or 3.1 miles by 2.4 miles - for a total of kilometers long, 7.2 miles in imperial unites, and weighing the small amount of million kilograms or million pounds. By being in orbit, weather, dust and day and night cyc