GEO already has 295 commercial satellites (was Nuclear cures)

hitssquad wrote:

> > One of the most impressive facts about the High Frontier
> > concept is how much room there is out there for solar
> > interception.
>
> GEO is already packed with satellites. At 6AM and 6PM local time, daily,
> they can potentially be shadowed by solar collection arrays.

I'm surprised nobody has called you on this yet. I guess it's my turn.
GEO has a radius of 42,164 km. That's a circumference of 264,924 km.
So each of those 295 commercial satellites you mention has about 898
km to itself (on average). That's more than the distance between
Philadelphia, PA, and Knoxville, TN.

Sheesh.