SpaceX's Orbital Solar Push Has Elon Musk Thinking Bigger Than Ever -- He Says The '10X' Trend Will Last Fo

SpaceX Founder, Elon Musk, anticipates a steady surge in space solar power, according to his recent post.

On Monday, Musk responded to a post by David Holz, founder of MidJourney, highlighting SpaceX's escalating solar power capacity in space. Holz noted the company's progression from 10 megawatts across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites to 100 megawatts with 7000 gen2 satellites. He also mentioned the upcoming generation, gen3, which is expected to generate 1000 megawatts.

"SpaceX is basically 10xing space solar every few years!" Holz wrote.

Musk concurred with this observation, stating, "This trend will continue for many years."

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