Data centers in space use 24/7 solar power
EDIT: they cover it later on; if you think about it you can orbit on the exact line that is perpendicular to both the equator and the direction of the sun, and then have the orbit progress perfectly in sync with the earth’s orbit (`365.25/360`° of longitude drift per day) so that it’s always on this special orbit. So it’s like GEO but (presumably…?) way harder to maintain, and slightly more exclusive (how many could you safely pack in a constellation?). Not to mention the need to account for all the other LEO satellites to dodge this 4km wide square, and the much higher (presumably??) risk of debris/dust collisions.
This seems like a hat on top of a hat on top of a thousand hats, but Godspeed you mad geniuses. I would love to see this some day, perhaps if/when AGI trivializes some of the problems involved!
PS if my napkin math is right (`tan(4/800)*60` = 0.005 arc minutes) it wouldn’t be visible to the human eye at typical LEO altitudes, a threshold that Wikipedia puts around 0.5 arc minutes. We can pump those numbers up! As-is it would certainly be a sight to behold every day at dawn and dusk, that’s for sure…
A "sun-synchronous orbit" is typically a polar orbit that precesses so that it's sunside pass is always "over" the same local time (say, noon(ish)).
That puts it over the antipodean midnight time once it crosses the pole.
If you're thinking of a different orbit, how does that work?