also solar storms can’t be good for business… i guess it wouldn’t be economically viable to also add orbit maintaining thrusters…might as well just keep launching sat batches to maintain the network shells
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Deiskos@lemmy.world 8 months agoAtmospheric drag, not gravity. ☝️🤓
Although technically correct because gravity is stronger on lower orbit owing to being closer to the Earth.
zoe@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Deiskos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Starlinks do actually have stationkeeping thrusters, thats how they can spread apart after a group of them is deployed together, and that’s how they can have 5 year designed lifetime at an orbit this low.
zoe@infosec.pub 8 months ago
so i assume, that if they deorbit, then it is because they run out of fuel ?
Fermion@feddit.nl 8 months ago
The strength of gravity at the orbital altitude of the ISS is 88% the strength of gravity at the earth’s surface, if anyone wants the actual number.