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That doesn't seem right - the Starlinks go up to 53.8 degrees. That means that you should have quite a few satellites above your horizon, once that first shell
by trothamel 6y ago
That doesn't seem right - the Starlinks go up to 53.8 degrees. That means that you should have quite a few satellites above your horizon, once that first shell is finished.
After that, later satellites will be at 70 and 97.6 (retrograde) inclination, so the entire world should be covered upon completion.
- sandworm101 6y agoJust having sats at an inclination is not enough. It is a numbers game. How many are visible at any one moment, and their slant ranges, at a particular spot dictates available bandwidth. Also: the number of hops to the nearest downlink station. This is a massive structure of sat and ground installations. What we are seeing now is a system that goes just north enough to cover london, leaving much of the north un/underserved.