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Always facing away from Earth, but not always facing away from the sun. Not my field, so I don't know how important interference from solar RF is.

If you're building on this scale, why not put two on opposite sides of, say, Deimos? The delta-v between there and LEO is less than the delta-v between the lunar surface and LEO: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Solar_sy...

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Wow! TIL. At first I thought you must be reading the map wrong, but you're right. Landing on Deimos does indeed seem to require less delta-V than landing on our own moon, assuming that this map is correct. And that seems to hold even without aerobraking.

14917 ms-1 [Moon] v. 14520 ms-1 [Deimos], if I'm reading it right.

It's because Deimos basically doesn't have a gravity well to overcome. You're just getting alongside it in orbit. It's not really landing at all.

I don't know if it's possible to make this map to scale, but it's hard to read right now.

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