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What about the latency hit getting data back to earth?
LEO isn’t that far away. StarLink has quite good latency.
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.
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.