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Space is a pretty hostile environment over those timescales. Selecting a power source is hard as solar cells almost certainly will not last more than a hundred
by extrapickles 7y ago
Space is a pretty hostile environment over those timescales.
Selecting a power source is hard as solar cells almost certainly will not last more than a hundred or two years. Nuclear materials with long half-lives don’t provide much power.
Electronics would just have to be big to avoid radiation damage from being a concern.