Anno 2205 Orbital Station Layout |link| -

You need a dense residential block immediately adjacent to these generators to provide the operating capacity, as shields drain crew faster than scanners.

Use the Orbital Relay module as a bridge. It doesn't generate scan range itself, but it allows you to connect distant scanner clusters without wasting prime real estate on corridors. Anno 2205 Orbital Station Layout

Why? Because the Orbital Station is the only structure that provides affecting every single sector: Temperate, Arctic, Lunar, and even the Tundra regions of the Wildwater Bay DLC. You need a dense residential block immediately adjacent