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wooooootoday at 5:28 AM2 repliesview on HN

Seasons mess that up unless you're burning fuel to make minor plane changes every day. Otherwise you have an equinox where your plane faces the sun (equivalent to an equatorial orbit) and a solstice where your plane is parallel to the sun (the ideal case).


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oliv5900today at 8:12 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit A Sun Synchronous orbit at the Day-Night terminator solves this issue

WalterBrighttoday at 7:39 AM

True. It would a tradeoff with the fuel consumed vs doubling power output.