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Re:Unhappy Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellit... by rurban on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:04PM (#18347945)
Does anybody understands the technical limitations with that low orbit? I assume it has to be powered somehow to stay in that extremely low orbit, and therefore has limited lifetime. You cannot just shoot rockets up there to fill them up.

But since the technology will also have short lifetime (5 year I assume) Musk might be right to make it cheap and fast.

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Re:Unhappy Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellit... by mrep on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:25PM (#18348107)
They plan on using ion thrusters: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/8iy7pv/why_is_space...
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Re:Unhappy Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellit... by rurban on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:11AM (#18353168)
Ouch. At first I mixed it up with the EMDrive, which would not work. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325177082_The_Space...

But a simple ion thruster is fine. Those beasts are incredibly fast up there in low orbit. Something like one earth orbit in 2 hours.

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