• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If it’s close enough for respectable latency, it’s close enough to experience drag. Given the maddeningly high power/cooling and resultant large surface area, then that satellite will have a tendency to incur re-entry.

    So either close enough for “ok” latency but will burn up relatively soon or high enough to keep an orbit longer but terrible latency.