
Will starlink spoil astronomy?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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A Real Thing, Right?
There are plans for a whole network of satellites up there in space. A single one would be passing over the earth to do an orbit in around 90 and so if you have like a 90 minute internut session, you're not always talking to the same satellite. Each one, because it's lower down, can't see as much of the earth aslike a smaller patch that it covers. So you need more of them in order to cover the whole earth.
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