[Starlink] FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (Mark Harris)
David Lang
david at lang.hm
Thu Mar 14 13:11:34 EDT 2024
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Daniel AJ Sokolov via Starlink wrote:
> 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.
so does that mean that nothing can orbit lower than the ISS beacuse of a launch
every few months may need to schedule?
>> 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.
so overlapping altitudes that don't linger are better than non-overlapping
altitudes? that doesn't make sense to me.
David Lang
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