Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoWhats the difference between the thin green horizontal ring and the wide orange horizontal ring that is slightly tilted?
Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoWhats the difference between the thin green horizontal ring and the wide orange horizontal ring that is slightly tilted?
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Green is active, orange is debris or dead sats. When a GEO sat runs out of life / power / fuel the operators are supposed to move it out of the main corridor to make room, so often they are in the same ring but higher or lower