[Starlink] Measuring a Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Network

[David Lang]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2023, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink wrote:

> For my part, I can tell that I follow one particular sat chosen 
> arbitrarily (STARLINK-6064) on a public database since some weeks now 
> and it keeps at around 360km altitude.   That is much lower than 
> 500-or-so usual.  Maybe it is that lower altitude that permits a higher 
> performance (lower latencies).

Interesting, their phase 2 satellites will be in 335-245Km orbits, but the 
databases I've looked at don't show any of them being launched yet

> (there are other sats even lower, but not sure whether they're there in 
> error or on their way up).

I've seen some lists showing sats at 70km, which is well below the definition of 
'in space', so some of those numbers are just plain wrong.

David Lang

> Alex
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>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: J Pan <Pan at uvic.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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>>> To: dave.taht at gmail.com <dave.taht at gmail.com>
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>>> Hi Dave: thanks for your libreqos work. did you see
>>> https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06863 ? cheers.  -j
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>>> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, 
> Web.UVic.CA/~pan
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