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Originally Posted by Humabout
That change in power output does appear in Ultra-Tech under its description of solar arrays. If it's missing from Spaceships, it's because Spaceships is to vehicles as Action! is to gritty realism - a gross simplification that is works for the application.
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The size assumes an earthlike level of sunlight; multiply cost and weight by relative light levels for other environments.
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There is a very bad habit of reading only the part that interests us. If you multiply the weight and the price, and that of the spacecraft system remains constant, the resulting performance per system is exactly the same: one power point.