A craft with a massive central flywheel spun up by a nuclear craft that remains in Earth Orbit might be one way to supply electrical power--with the mass of the flywheel being a heavy duty battery itself. The disck has an inset dish always pointing back toward Earth, with gyros used to 'level off' while passing through any debris to present less of a cross section.


No reactors,and no solar collectors, radiators or other fragile protrusions sticking up like washerboards out from a trashcan/bus

Spinning fast enough, and you have M2P2 to boot. And artificial gravity. Maybe the flying disk isn't such a bad design after all.