alt Hacker NewsMy layman expectation would have been much higher. It's got no atmosphere refracting anything and it's closer to the source of energy.
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exe34 • yesterday at 9:20 PM
LEO isn't much closer to the sun, and the atmosphere probably doesn't absorb a huge amount at the wavelengths they work.
The distance from earth to the sun is 150 million kilometers and your orbit is probably only a few hundred kilometers up (and realistically it’s sun-synchronous and perpendicular to the earth-sun axis), so the distance change doesn’t really matter.