Billy boy's satellites [Was - Floating DataHaven]
Sandy Sandfort
sandfort at crl.com
Fri Aug 16 14:16:54 PDT 1996
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SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Gary Howland wrote:
> Doesn't the low orbit part mean that the satellites will have a
> low life expectancy, meaning a new launch every couple of days?
"Low orbit" is used in a relative sense as compared to satellites
in geosynchronous orbit. The Teledesic satellites will orbit in
the 700km range--hundreds of kilometers above the wispy highest
reaches of earth's astmosphere. At that height, there will be
virtually no difference in orbital decay from that of
geosynchronous birds.
S a n d y
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