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Fig. 5.

Diagram depicting the Starlink chassis parallel to the tangent at the nadir. The vectors from the Sun to both the satellite chassis and nadir are approximated as being parallel, and they form the angle, αs, with the Starlink chassis and the tangent at the nadir, allowing θ + αs = 90°.
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