It's not always perfectly edge on, and it requires a control system to keep it oriented that way. This is why from the linked article: > The satellites were

It's not always perfectly edge on, and it requires a control system to keep it oriented that way. This is why from the linked article: > The satellites were then placed in a protective "safe mode" and commanded to fly edge-on "like a sheet of paper" to minimize drag effects as the company worked with the U.S. Space Force and the company LeoLabs to track them with ground-based radar, it added.