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sprigyig | 6 years ago

Admittedly I haven't researched it that well, but I'm curious how often they would have to aim their sensors at the sun to receive from a neighboring satellite. I'd have to assume those links would need to be subtracted from the system, which could slightly drive up latency around sun up and sun down for a part of the planet.

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Veedrac|6 years ago

The sun is pretty small compared to space, something like .0005% of the full sky sphere, and almost half that time it's covered by Earth. Since there's no atmospheric glare in space, I suspect it's not a problem given decent engineering.

londons_explore|6 years ago

There are still internal reflections within the optical system - glare from that will likely be much larger than atmospheric glare