mecko23

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   by mecko23 3y ago

   Why in this case would it cause significant problems? Are you referring to the heating (that would make sense with such a large surface area of panels)? Concerning cooling- with such short times in eclipse I can’t imagine that it would have
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   by mecko23 3y ago

   Hmm, well I totally understand how it drives spacecraft design and I don’t know off the top of my head the length of greatest eclipse but it cannot be greater than a small fraction of the period (upwards of 1/12). This is significant
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   by mecko23 3y ago

   Respectfully, I believe you are inaccurate on both accounts, sun synchronous orbits (SSO) only have no eclipse if their orbital plane is within a very degrees of the terminator, this of course widens with altitude but there exists far more