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What are they going to power it with?

All electric propulsion systems suffer from power-supply issues. Performance is based on power-per-unit-mass and that's a big restriction.

However all is not lost. In-space nuclear power might be an albatross, but in-space power from ultra-light solar will be BIG if the solar-power satellite start-ups succeed.

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