Value chain · CLM-1199
In plain terms
On its long, looping 12-hour orbit each array hangs over one region for about 11 and a half hours, then on the next loop serves a region about halfway round the world; the company plans 16 of them.
The claim as recorded
The survey states that each Lucidus array in its 12-hour Molniya orbit "can dynamically track ground stations through 11-1/2h or more of each 12h orbital period", serves "two sets of ground stations separated by 160-200deg of longitude sequentially every other orbit", and that two or more arrays give firm power with 2 h of ground storage; it puts the maximum at about 20 GW per array, plans a constellation of 16 arrays, and claims "greater than 320GW planned deployment by 2040".
Scope and limits
THE VENDOR'S OWN FIGURES. SRC-013 is Virtus Solis's survey of its competitors and itself (T4), and states "Data associated with the Virtus Solis system was internally generated" (PDF 2). No held source checks them independently; SRC-076 Table 1 (PDF 12) gives the orbit only as "HEO" and carries none of these operating figures. These are plans and design statements, not demonstrated operations. The apogee altitude and the inclination are not given in SRC-012, SRC-013, SRC-014, SRC-076, SRC-590 or the SOLARIS TASI and deck texts (searched 2026-09-26; sources without a text layer not searched). CLM-0667 records the Molniya choice and the stated reason for rejecting GEO.
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
PDF 7, render: "Each array can dynamically track ground stations through 11-1/2h or more of each 12h orbital period" (the page breaks the line after "11-"); "Each array serves two sets of ground stations separated by 160-200deg of longitude sequentially every other orbit, and a constellation of two or more arrays can provide firm power with 2h of ground energy storage at each ground station."; "(about 20GW maximum per array)"; "greater than 320GW planned deployment by 2040"; "The planned constellation of 16 arrays can provide redundant baseload power anywhere on Earth simultaneously to hundreds of ground stations."
Basis: hours of tracking per 12 h orbit; longitude separation of served ground stations in degrees; storage hours; GW per array; arrays planned; GW by 2040
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-1199
CLM-1199, Energy Aperture, as of 2024.
Connected records
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