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Space solar remains prohibitively expensive with costs currently 12 orders of magnitude above break-even points needed for viability. The technology faces massive technological hurdles including wireless power transmission, orbital assembly, space debris risks, and the cost of launching and maintaining these systems. Space solar is still a distant dream, and is not yet economically sound.
There is a 50% chance that 30.7 gigawatts of space based solar photovoltaic cells will be installed by 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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