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Old 10-02-2022, 05:32 PM   #27
LHaven
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Unlike geostationary satellites that are 22.3K miles up and therefore very slow. Starlink satellites are in much lower orbits 1/60th that distance... but because of that, they move across the sky. The customer dish has to "follow" them. This means you have to have clear sky in the direction of motion of the satellites, which depends on your location. Here in my town, it's roughly NNE, going by a mass deployment display I saw last year, though they may have a bunch of cross-hatching orbits by now that I haven't witnesed. Anyway, one of those paths has to be clear throughout some number of degrees for continuous service. The customer antenna knows how to track through 100°, though I assume the satellites are spaced closer than that.
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