Re: [Starlink] FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (Mark Harris)

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

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