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From: Daniel AJ Sokolov <daniel@falco.ca>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] 69,000 Users
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:33:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75cf35be-52ef-fe2b-2a7e-d6224b803789@falco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2106300025020.3753340@qynat-yncgbc>

On 2021-06-30 at 12:30 a.m., David Lang wrote:
> the orbital life of a satellite may end up being a bit better than you 
> think, they will de-orbit by themselves after about 5 years, but they do 
> have thrusters that they can use to raise their orbits to extend their 
> lives if they don't need the fuel for collision avoidance.

OK. But does it help Starlink if 3 satellites in a train of 10 run an 
extra year, and 3 more an extra half year? Can they reasonably "refill" 
the train satellite by satellite?

BR
Daniel AJ

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-30 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-30  2:00 Daniel AJ Sokolov
2021-06-30  5:24 ` David Lang
2021-06-30  5:48   ` Dave Taht
2021-06-30  7:13     ` [Starlink] routing capability in starlinks Dave Taht
2021-06-30 14:43       ` Michael Richardson
2021-06-30 23:56         ` Nick Buraglio
2021-06-30  7:23     ` [Starlink] 69,000 Users Mike Puchol
2021-06-30  7:30       ` David Lang
2021-06-30  7:43         ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-30  7:51         ` Dave Taht
2021-06-30  9:57         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2021-06-30 14:24           ` Dave Taht
2021-06-30 18:33             ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2021-06-30 20:40               ` Dick Roy
2021-06-30 23:33         ` Daniel AJ Sokolov [this message]
2021-07-01  0:00           ` David Lang
2021-07-01  0:03             ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2021-07-01  0:20               ` David Lang
2021-06-30 10:53       ` Jared Mauch

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