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Starlink currently orbits at 550 km. 550*60=33000 so that puts it slightly more than 60 times closer than GEO. There are other shells planned at different heights, but the current satellites, and ones launched in the near future, are all orbiting at 550km.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink -- in the table of launches there's a column for orbit height.

parent twicetwice 5 years ago

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