A different kind of SBSP

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "hitssquad" wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "brooksn" wrote:
> > You have LEO orbiting mirrors always in the orbit of the dusk/dawn of Earth, essentially always facing the Sun in a polar orbit riding along the edge of the Earth's shadow.
> They'd be catching quite a breeze. Even at 1,000 km above sea level, the average wind-speed broadside to the mirrors would be 7.35 km/s:
> http://www.freemars.org/jeff/speed/

Correction, the broadside wind-speed would only be about 500 km/s. However, the wind speed headlong would be 7.35 km/s, which might create fluttering that could tear the delicate mirror fabric if it were something like thin aluminized mylar.