> It drives many engineering constraints for spacecraft systems.
Here the only thing it's going to drive are thermal requirements-- which are admittedly significant problems. There's no need to continue to use large amounts of power for comms, etc, like on most GEO birds.
And, of course, the grid needs to deal with the power disappearing for an hour in the middle of the night for short periods of the year.
Here the only thing it's going to drive are thermal requirements-- which are admittedly significant problems. There's no need to continue to use large amounts of power for comms, etc, like on most GEO birds.
And, of course, the grid needs to deal with the power disappearing for an hour in the middle of the night for short periods of the year.