When you look at a constellation, no one sees the pictures that are drawn. We have centres on those satellites to make sure that we can steer clear of one another. So if you can navi that means they each have a reserve of fuel,. yet, presumably would eventually run out it don't they do, rit, and then we are not able to move them. Any more. But we're looking at technologies like solar or a actually the ability to reach fol satellites, and small they are with very limited amount of fuel abs so when will there be enough satellites in orbit?
How do satellites work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore CubeSats, space lasers, and the ecology of low Earth orbit with VP of Raytheon, Sandy Brown, and associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Kerri Cahoy.
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