[Starlink] FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (Mark Harris)

[Daniel AJ Sokolov]

On 3/13/24 19:55, David Lang via Starlink wrote:
> this doesn't make sense to me. The ISS can go as low as 360km before 
> they get a boost back to a higher orbit, but the starlink satellites 
> they are denying will all be lower than that (and worst case, they can 
> force SpaceX to pay for a few additional reboost missions over the next 
> 6 years before they deorbit it)

These satellites would be in the way of supply missions to/from ISS.

> but they would avoid the thousands of satellites going up and down 
> through the ISS orbit range to get to their ~550km orbit/

They don't linger there, so that's different.

BR
Daniel AJ