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My first thought was wow! My second thought was, wait a minute... The image certainly shows there are a lot of satellites floating around Earth. But "crowded"
by aasarava 13y ago
My first thought was wow! My second thought was, wait a minute...
The image certainly shows there are a lot of satellites floating around Earth. But "crowded" is a relative term. There are many, many miles of space between those satellites.
- jessriedel 13y agoYep. I did a back of the envelope calculation once, and I think it was something like a thousand cubic miles for every satellite in low Earth orbit. Alaska would look overwhelmingly crowded too if you drew even a tiny fraction of the population as small visible people on the map.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoStill pretty crowded when the benchmark is resolving it with a radio beam. Part of 1 degree for geosynchronous. Tracking satellites in lower orbits also tricky. A few miles separation when they're 90 miles away is cutting it pretty fine, when its a moving target.