I d like to connect this to my base.
Astroneer satellite solar panel.
The gateway portal satellite appears over the sun.
It can be placed on two adjacent slots on a platform or vehicle.
I tried tethering out to it but could not get it to interact with the tethers.
The wrecked solar array is a discovery unique in that it is the only functional non craftable solar panel in astroneer.
The solar panel is one sided and if facing the sun generates power which can be drawn into a vehicle.
It only produces power when exposed to sunlight.
The larger ones you used to be able to see the sun the whole time at the pole but it wasn t high enough in the sky to activate the solar panels 100 of the time.
The medium solar panel is one of the power generators in astroneer.
When exposed to light the panel will orient itself automatically toward the sun if possible and produce 0 5u s of power or enough to fill one bar on a.
Small solar panels are crafted in your backpack s printer using copper this kind of panel can be placed on any item slot but in the backpack it will only produce power when placed on one of the widget slots see image on the right.
I quite often come across a wrecked crashed satellite with a huge solar panel.
It requires sunlight to provide power.
But if you make a pillar and put solar panels or the new solar array on it vertically on all 4 sides of the pillar you might be able to get 100 at the poles.
If you dig down a bit you can see that it is generating power when the sun is out the bars flash and fill up.
Discoveries in astroneer consist of a large number of different items.
The solar array is a power module in astroneer.
The two panels are folded upward over the center when it is not exposed to sunlight.
Unlike the medium solar panel the solar array isn t required to be placed on a platform.