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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You'd have to constantly adjust its orbit. Something that huge with massive radiators and solar panels is going to get a lot of drag.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

1000km is still considered LEO and would take hundreds of years to decay. At this distance, you’d add 3ms of latency, which isn’t nothing but acceptable for most applications.