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ISS flights relatively low, so its visibility from earth is just a few minutes. Also laser is limites by weather.
by jkot 11y ago
ISS flights relatively low, so its visibility from earth is just a few minutes. Also laser is limites by weather.
- Retric 11y agoIt's a 92 minute orbit, so if a single station works for say 5 minutes you only need 20 of them for full coverage. However, I don't think the .5 second latency is a significant issue.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> you only need 20 of them for full coverage NASA already has the Near Earth Network [1], curious if they could be providing faster data rates to the ISS depending on existing workload. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/near-earth-network/ https://www.nasa.gov/content/near-earth-network/