The price per KW of SPS

Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:07:26 -0500
True, and correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there limits to the
beam deflection one can achieve within the limits of practicability?
I'm thinking of situations like where the Earth is at a 90 degree
angle to the sun.
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Indeed.
There will be outages during those times,
I think this will occur for up to an hour per day in GEO.

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I was referring specifically to the integrated
PV/solid-state-antenna designs where the structure must point (more
or less) toward the Earth, and the sun's at a 90 degree angle, so we
use a mirror to reflect sunlight onto the PV surface of the
structure. The mirrors have to go through some strange rotation
relative to the rotation of the platform, and the whole thing struck
me as hellishly complicated.
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Yuck !