Typically 95% of a ship's structure is reusable, most of it valuable steel.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

Twenty-four hours of light bleaches out the structure of a day, so ship life becomes organized by meals and debarkations, either onto land or into the inflatable dinghies.

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Astronauts inside the platform will then grab the ship with a robotic arm and berth it to the 400km-high structure.

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