Building a structure on the moon like this, in comparison to shipping one from home, is a pretty nonsense choice. An architecture like Starship can launch 20-40 tons into lunar orbit at something like $50,000 $/kg.
I would expect that Starship can do that two orders of magnitude cheaper.
For power, let’s assume that we deliver the single largest solar array that can fit in a Starship fairing, about 162 m^2.
Why do you think you can’t just take a lot of normal solar arrays? Starship should transport something like 100,000kg per flight which gives you ~8,000 m^2 of standard solar cells.
I would expect that Starship can do that two orders of magnitude cheaper.
Why do you think you can’t just take a lot of normal solar arrays? Starship should transport something like 100,000kg per flight which gives you ~8,000 m^2 of standard solar cells.