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diabeetusman06/27/20251 replyview on HN

Normally yes, but the L1 Lagrange point always would have an unobstructed view of the sun. Granted, L1 is a lot further away than LEO (~3x the distance to the moon), so that makes it harder and more expensive to get to


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qayxc06/27/2025

You don't need to go that far. That's what sun-synchronous orbits are for.