You can simulate it on starlink.sx, maybe Mike will chime in with what he found in doing that. On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 11:05 AM Christian von der Ropp wrote: > But in practice the satellites won't be sitting and waiting at the edge of > this 940km radius. They are moving in and out the radius and the question > is if satellite density is high enough so that once the serving satellite > loses its gateway link there's another satellite in the 940km radius which > also covers Tonga. And then this new satellite cannot be within certain > elevation angles (~60-80° at 0° azimuth) where the geostationary arc > crosses Fijian skies and the gateway antennas have to seize emission. My > gut feeling is that availability in Tonga would be <90% simply because it's > too far out at the edge of a Fijian gateway's range where there will be > frequent service interruptions. > > > Am 07.02.2022 um 19:51 schrieb Nathan Owens: > > The current coverage radius of a gateway/ground station with a 25 degree > minimum elevation is ~940km, so nothing in theory. > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:50 AM Daniel AJ Sokolov > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I hope this is not offtopic: Starlink wants to build a ground station on >> Fiji to supply Tonga with internet. >> >> The distance between Tonga and Fiji is about 750 km minimum. That's >> quite the distance. >> >> What does Starlink have to do to make this work? >> >> Cheers >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> > > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing listStarlink@lists.bufferbloat.nethttps://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink > > > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >