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I don't like the animation on the website. I'd expect stationary satellites, not moving criss cross around the earth. Or will they not be stationary? This is co
by battletested 7y ago
I don't like the animation on the website. I'd expect stationary satellites, not moving criss cross around the earth. Or will they not be stationary? This is confusing..
- isostatic 7y agoThey aren't in geostationary, so they won't be stationary (relative to the ground)
- martythemaniak 7y agoThe animation is accurate. To stay stationary, a satellite has to be 35000km away from the earth, these will be about 500km away. They will move very fast across your line of sight, but have very low latency.
- battletested 7y agothank you all for clarifying!
- nicktelford 7y agoDo you mean stationary with respect to the earth, or with respect to each other? The answer in either case is that they'll be moving, because the low orbits they will be in require it.
- ma1f 7y agoGeostationary is around 35,000km, starlink satellites will be around 300-500km, hence the low latency.
- soulofmischief 7y agoIt helps with load balancing. Google Bloon planned to automatically geographically appropriate satellite clusters based on real-time demand, so I assume there are similar plans for Star-Link.