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 <cvdr@vdr.net> 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.