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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
NASA already did the work up in 1977. Just look up NASA SP-413 Space Settlements: A Design Study. While they were thinking of using a space shuttle rather than a Saturn V variant, they built a dang good economic case for something that could have been done with 1970s technology.
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So, I did that. And to my
complete lack of surprise, they (A) did no work to prove that orbital beamed power would actually work and (B) actually had a section saying that orbital beamed power was the only economic justification they could some up with.