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vgorelik
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Would it be possible to assemble a structure equipped with a large (ISS-type) solar power-generating plant @ LEO and raise its orbit to a circumlunar crossing Earths magnetosphere and its radiation belts? I am not as much concerned about the radiation damage to the panels and electronics as to the spurious currents that may be induced in the on-board high current buses. If that were indeed a problem, than would it help if the system’s high-current circuits were laid in a single plane that is aligned with the plane of Earth’s magnetic field while the assembly is towed up?<br /><br />Will we ever need an ISS-type structure around Moon?<br />