Literature
Hard analysis of Iven-Furrpaw's Old ASA Spaceships
(Refers to the contents of this folder . The link is also in the description, but I think it would be useful to "frontload" it as well. )ASA Navigator:
1. Vents collecting solar energy? I don't think that's how things work... 2. Regardless, if those wings were solar panels, BFR-style... hol up, lemme do a calculation: Lit surface of the top wing is approximately 71,000 m2, which with an insolation of 1,361 W/m2 and an efficiency of 70% (it is the future, after all), and assuming that the ship's position means that all the energy accumulated by all the wings approximately equals that, this would make a power of 68 MW. Extrapolating from ...