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Article #7746Re: Powersats
From: timothym
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1986 20:32
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1986 20:32
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In article <1310@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>There day and NIGHT? Where does it get its night power (I am presuming
>a solar power source)? It would have to be in a pretty durn high orbit
>( :-), and synchronous orbits are kinda low, aren't they? ) for the earth
>not to block the sun from the powersat at night!
Geosync orbits are at 22,000 +/- miles. They can be placed where Earth
shadow isn't a problem (at least for the most part a minimum of 3 hours
of cooling down and 22 hours of warming up).
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