No, because once we get to about as far out as Jupiter, the irradiance from the sun isn't powerful enough to run solar panels. Solar panels barely work well enough to power the Mars rovers.
Most spacecraft sent to the outer solar system and to interstellar space either have batteries or are nuclear powered.
Just think though...it gets worse. If you think Jupiter exploration spacecraft have it bad...an interstellar spacecraft has it...um...I don't know...27000 times worse, as that is how many Jovian perihelions it is to half way to the nearest star. And oh...there is the inverse square law, so that is really 76 billion times worse.
Modern Solar power technology is still considered not efficient
enough to satisfy our power need on earth.So there is no way
that it will power a ship for space travel. But there are other way
Right now we are looking at several option:
1-Nuclear Fusion
What if we could create our own sun ?
Achieving a nuclear fusion will allow us to produce
a power source almost unlimited that could power space ship.
A small fusion reactor could power a shuttle as big as the empire
state for year in space.
2-Antimatter
Finding how to control antimatter is the key to our energy crisis.
Imagine whole city, space station, shuttle pretty much anything
can be powered by antimatter. But the challenge is how to produce it and control it.
I think in the future we will find a way.
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