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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_Mo...



>Overall the temperature of the balloon will stay pretty constant if it stays on a fixed orbit around the sun.

OK, so you just ruled out 99% of use cases. The world only has a handful of satellites in heliocentric orbits.




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