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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Powersats
Message-ID: <1209@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 15:32:30 EST
Article-I.D.: tekigm2.1209
Posted: Wed Nov 12 15:32:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Nov-86 04:49:37 EST
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Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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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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