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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by jcun4128 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:55AM (#23412577)
I see yeah I meant just flying through it. It would help to see a scale model of the completed orbits as it looks "worse" than it is. I'm not against it, though it would be nice if it was free ha.

side note: not related but the Eccentric Orbits book about Iridium was really good imo.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by cdash on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:44AM (#23415337)
Well a scale model would be just the earth, you basically would never even see a satellite because they are so small.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by jcun4128 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:59AM (#23416609)
right maybe they're emphasized to show the orbital pattern like this[1]

Or if it was scale/can't see it.

Which I suppose even so, that ship would have to be unrealistically massive to have problems flying through one of the gaps.

[1] https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/190208-s...

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