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As other commenters mentioned, it is just too far away to do that. To give you a sense of scale, if you reduce Earth to the size of a basketball, low earth orb
by positr0n 7y ago
As other commenters mentioned, it is just too far away to do that.
To give you a sense of scale, if you reduce Earth to the size of a basketball, low earth orbit (space station, starlink, etc) would be less than a quarter inch above the surface of the basketball. Geosynchronous orbit is a ring around the equator 26 inches above the surface of the basketball.
This is also why Starlink is incomparable to existing satellite internet solutions.
- Nition 7y agoThere's a nice visualisation of the different orbits at http://stuffin.space http://stuffin.space
- cmroanirgo 7y agoWow. Thanks for that, what a great visualisation, and updating too! Edit: This is the satellite being talked about in the article http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1998-030A http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1998-030A
- squarefoot 7y agoThat site is fantastic, thanks! And it also indexes debris; just enter "DEB" into the search box to get data on all known debris in orbit.
- DagAgren 7y agoIt's not in geosynchronous, though, it's in low earth.