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Re:Rocketlab acquires Iridium by preg_match on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:12PM (#48725309)
Low earth orbit is actually not very big. And that’s what we’re talking about here.
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Re:Rocketlab acquires Iridium by NetMageSCW on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:32PM (#48726695)
LEO is about 2000km to 300km - at 50m shells, that’s about 34,000 times the surface of the Earth.

It is very, very, very big.

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Re:Rocketlab acquires Iridium by dguest on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:53AM (#48730481)
50m shells seems pretty optimistic. I thought some alarms would fire when things are within 1 km.
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