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Random thought: are the satellite trajectories "dense enough" that in the future when ships/people are trying to leave the Earth have to get a delay/launch wind
by jcun4128 6y ago
Random thought: are the satellite trajectories "dense enough" that in the future when ships/people are trying to leave the Earth have to get a delay/launch window and the Starlink satellite(s) may get diverted around the area you're going through.
- kortilla 6y agoNo, think of the sky in terms of the surface of the earth. The star link satellites paths are like a few highway stretched across the surface. Not only is it a tiny sliver cut across the glob, it’s also at a very specific LEO so the spacecraft wouldn’t even stop there in the vast majority of cases.
- jcun4128 6y agoI see yeah I meant just flying through it. It would help to see a scale model of the completed orbits as it looks "worse" than it is. I'm not against it, though it would be nice if it was free ha. side note: not related but the Eccentric Orbits book about Iridium was really good imo.
- cdash 6y agoWell a scale model would be just the earth, you basically would never even see a satellite because they are so small.
- jcun4128 6y agoright maybe they're emphasized to show the orbital pattern like this[1] Or if it was scale/can't see it. Which I suppose even so, that ship would have to be unrealistically massive to have problems flying through one of the gaps. [1] https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/190208-starlink-630x356.png https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/190208-s...