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For reference: the Sun is about 400'000x brighter than the Moon.
But if you widen a 20m diameter mirror to a 5km diameter illuminated area you get 250*250 = 62'500 times less light energy per area, compared to the same spot in direct daylight. Or only 6.4 times brighter than the moon, calculating from your factor of 400'000.
For the stated goal of solar power, this would be completely useless. Well not completely, just 62'500 times worse than during daytime.
I mean...that is not a lot. It moved at 8 kilometers per second as well? How is this useful to anyone?
It occurs to me that if they want this to be geostationary, it will need to be at 60.000km height, which is 100x what this test thing was at.