Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 day agoThat would also make latency worse and the signal weaker.
Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 day agoThat would also make latency worse and the signal weaker.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well you wouldn’t want to put them much higher, but if you raised their orbit by say 40%, they’d be getting significantly less atmospheric drag. It could probably extend their life by 15 years. And yeah, they’re be 40% further away, so slightly more latency. Perhaps going from 70 ms ping to 100 ms ping. Not awesome, but definitely not a huge problem.