These sound like manageable problems in space though. Overall the temperature of the balloon will stay pretty constant if it stays on a fixed orbit around the

These sound like manageable problems in space though. Overall the temperature of the balloon will stay pretty constant if it stays on a fixed orbit around the sun. The argument about precision I don't understand - the article talks about creating telescopes with this concept but NASA wants to use this for radio communication - the comparison with JWST doesn't apply, as it's mirrors had to be manufactured to a much higher tolerance. > lifetime I mean we had bigelow Aerospace with their module and it seems to be pretty durable. [0] [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Module https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Mo...