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Comment by diabeetusman

6 months ago

Normally yes, but the L1 Lagrange point always would have an unobstructed view of the sun. Granted, L1 is a lot further away than LEO (~3x the distance to the moon), so that makes it harder and more expensive to get to

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qayxc  6 months ago

You don't need to go that far. That's what sun-synchronous orbits are for.

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