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by
Ciro Santilli
(@cirosantilli,
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Aerospace
Table of contents
Satellite
Communications satellite
SpaceX
Communications satellite
Satellite navigation
Global Positioning System
Satellite navigation
Satellite
Aerospace
Communications satellite
Aerospace
SpaceX
Communications satellite
Video 1.
What Elon Musk's 42,000 Satellites Could Do To Earth by Tech Insider (2020)
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Source
. Good primer. The main difference from older systems is that they fly closer to Earth, and are not geostationary. As a result, you have better latency. But you also need a bunc of them to have continuous coverage of an area.
Satellite navigation
Aerospace
Global Positioning System (1978-, GPS)
Satellite navigation
They actually carry
atomic clocks
in them.
Ancestors
Vehicle
Transport
Area of technology
Technology
Index
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