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Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source. Or they are not geostationary but it also means the datacenter
by LunaSea 1y ago
Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source.
Or they are not geostationary but it also means the datacenter will connect to a different earth base station which means the data access route would change and latency would increase which would be unacceptable for a lot of use cases.
You would then need to replicate and synchronise customer data across the different space data centres to make it possible to access said data in constant and low-latency time.
- dabluecaboose 1y ago> Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source. Due to the Earth's axial tilt [1], geostationary orbits generally have 24 hour sun exposure, except for a few minutes a day around the equinoxes [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt [2] https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/goes-east-west/goes-eclipse-schedule https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/...
- bbzylstra 1y agoYou can even see this in action via NOAA's CCOR-1: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/earth-makes-appearances-goes-19-ccor-1-imagery https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/earth-makes-appearances-goes-...