| ▲ | burnt-resistor 15 hours ago | |
- Costs to keep it in orbit. - More junk whizzing around Earth. - Inaccessibility for maintenance. - Power costs. - Susceptibility to solar storms and cosmic rays. Risky/untried things aren't dumb because they're hard, they're dumb when they're more expensive/harder than cheaper/easier alternatives that already exist that do the same thing. | ||