I have a design question ...

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: I have a design question ...

# 6007 bylongsteven@... on Nov. 15, 2004, 7:34 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

bsarge@... wrote:
>
> you are forgetting axial tilt. For 98% of the year it is in Sunshine, for
> the other 2% it is only an hour or two per day for a small number of days.
> Since you can work out when it will be in shadow you can deal with it
> fairly easily.
>

At 22.6 kmiles out, axial tilt will keep the geosynch SPS generating
platform out of earth's shadow 98% of the time? I'm gonna hafta draw
a diagram ... dang ... trigonometry ...

Steve