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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by nradov on Sunday December 08, 2019 @04:55PM (#21738645)
Starlink satellites are too small to do much orbital maneuvering. They only carry a small supply of krypton gas for their station keeping thrusters.
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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by greglindahl on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#21739061)
They have enough propellant to change their orbital height by quite a lot, more than the typical satellite (other than GTO-to-GEO thrusters.)

OTOH you can just ask SpaceX or the Air Force where they have been in the past, SpaceX uses GPS and the Air Force radar is accurate enough for knowing where they were.

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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by londons_explore on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:33AM (#21741183)
If the astronomer community requested it, I'm sure spacex would give them a real-time (or even a few minutes ahead of time) feed of satellite positions accurate to less than a pixel on these telescopes.
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