GEO is the traditional place to put powersats. They stay in the sun for like 99% of the year and they're always above your rectenna. Also there's way less variation in velocity among GEO satellites so you'd expect Kessler syndrome to be less of a concern.
GEO is the traditional place to put powersats. They stay in the sun for like 99% of the year and they're always above your rectenna. Also there's way less variation in velocity among GEO satellites so you'd expect Kessler syndrome to be less of a concern.
Sure, but a big ass square of powersat in GEO above your ground station is a very different prospect from a band around the entire orbit
Oh I seriously doubt they meant a 36,000 km by 1 km wide array. They probably mean 1km by 1km which should be gigawatt scale.
Maybe the article/translation mangled what the scientist they're quoting was saying