[Starlink] Starlink for Tonga?

[Nathan Owens]

You can simulate it on starlink.sx, maybe Mike will chime in with what he
found in doing that.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 11:05 AM Christian von der Ropp <cvdr at vdr.net> wrote:

> But in practice the satellites won't be sitting and waiting at the edge of
> this 940km radius. They are moving in and out the radius and the question
> is if satellite density is high enough so that once the serving satellite
> loses its gateway link there's another satellite in the 940km radius which
> also covers Tonga. And then this new satellite cannot be within certain
> elevation angles (~60-80° at 0° azimuth) where the geostationary arc
> crosses Fijian skies and the gateway antennas have to seize emission. My
> gut feeling is that availability in Tonga would be <90% simply because it's
> too far out at the edge of a Fijian gateway's range where there will be
> frequent service interruptions.
>
>
> Am 07.02.2022 um 19:51 schrieb Nathan Owens:
>
> The current coverage radius of a gateway/ground station with a 25 degree
> minimum elevation is ~940km, so nothing in theory.
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:50 AM Daniel AJ Sokolov <daniel at sokolov.eu.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope this is not offtopic: Starlink wants to build a ground station on
>> Fiji to supply Tonga with internet.
>>
>> The distance between Tonga and Fiji is about 750 km minimum. That's
>> quite the distance.
>>
>> What does Starlink have to do to make this work?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Daniel
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