
Will starlink spoil astronomy?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Are You Speaking for the Whole Human Race?
The idea is that small satellites could fly in low earth orbit. This would give you, you know, internet access rather than just cellular service. Most of the satellite internet systems that we have right now are in go syncronous orbit. It takes a little while for the light to go all the way up to the satellite and back. But it's very complicated to have them be geosyncronous. And so essentially what you need,. instead of having a few satellites that are fixed, you need like a big constellation of satellitesSo they can pass the signals back and forth to each other.
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