Comment by Ajedi32
9 hours ago
Looks like that's a purely speculative assumption the blog author made, not a fact. I'm not sure why he made that assumption given that Starlink doesn't actually stop working at night.
Fair point that in SSO you'd need 2-3x the radiator area (and half the solar panels, and minimal/no batteries). I don't think that invalidates my point though.
Article doesn't say the satellites stop working in their dark phase, it says they consume 300W in the dark phase based on some battery math.