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treyd • yesterday at 9:42 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>you get solar power 24/7 and the latency to earth is just a few ms.

Not at the same time. To have few-ms latency you need to be in/below LEO, but then earth blocks the sun half the time.


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svara • yesterday at 9:49 PM

It can be done in a dawn-dusk, sun synchronous orbit, less than 1000 km up.

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