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tl;dr: it's trivial from a materials point of view, but hard from a "but you have to build it in space" point of view. We're still not great at building large structures in space.
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tl;dr: it's trivial from a materials point of view, but hard from a "but you have to build it in space" point of view. We're still not great at building large structures in space.