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Very, very cool. I know little about the subject matter but expected to see higher density around the equator. Unless I'm mistaken, geo-stationary satelites ne

• tastyfreeze 4y ago
  They do but geostationary is at an altitude of 35,786km. That gives a circumference of 264,869km and an arc length of 736 km per degree. That is a lot of space to fit satellites. "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
• ianburrell 4y ago
  You can see geostationary satellites if you zoom out. They are more apparent if rotate to look down from the poles. It looks like a faint ring. There aren't that many geostationary satellites. They need to stay spaced out to avoid each other. The result is a few, large satellites instead of the large cloud of ones close to Earth.
  • ngcc_hk 4y ago
    No knowledge. But is the two posts just contradict each other ? Anyway, very cool and click on individual dot give you the orbit. Still not sure how to find the geostationary one though.