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With geostationary? Don't they track a location on the earth? Is the satellite not in the earth's shadow at night?
by 8note 6y ago
With geostationary? Don't they track a location on the earth? Is the satellite not in the earth's shadow at night?
- mikepurvis 6y agoGeostationary is super far out— you're effectively in constant sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit Except, as the parent noted, very briefly during the equinoxes.
- yellowapple 6y agoAnd even that seems "easy" to circumvent by having redundant satellites, such that during the equinoxes (equinoxen?) only a fraction of said satellites are shadowed out at once. Alternately, a massive battery or capacitor bank could give the receiver enough buffer to hold out through an equinox-induced shadowing.