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From: Daniel AJ Sokolov <daniel@falco.ca>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (Mark Harris)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:05:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007f1215-e15f-4aae-a7de-3958c0914e68@falco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.2403131951070.20294@nftneq.ynat.uz>



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

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-14  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-14  1:59 the keyboard of geoff goodfellow
2024-03-14  2:55 ` David Lang
2024-03-14  6:05   ` Daniel AJ Sokolov [this message]
2024-03-14 17:11     ` David Lang
2024-03-14  3:30 ` Dave Taht

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