well according to the Esstential guide to Vechiles and starships.
The death star had its drive system in the equatorial trench, and that these drive sytems took up a huge amount of the station.
We never see them because it is behind to superlaser. so they wouldn't be visible.
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"Dulce bellum inexpertis."
(Sweet is war to those who have never experinced it.) Roman Proverb
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