| ▲ | Andrex 6 hours ago | |
My layman expectation would have been much higher. It's got no atmosphere refracting anything and it's closer to the source of energy. | ||
| ▲ | echoangle 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
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. | ||
| ▲ | exe34 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
LEO isn't much closer to the sun, and the atmosphere probably doesn't absorb a huge amount at the wavelengths they work. | ||