SpaceX Constellation Orbits Differ From What FCC Told: Astronomer
The orbital inclination shell altitude for SpaceX's second-generation constellation is quite different from what it told the FCC it would be, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell tweeted Monday. Rather than 530 km, as SpaceX said it would, the…
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altitude is more a range of 480 km to 580 km, "which is huge and covers most of the range" of most other operational low earth orbit satellite systems, he said. SpaceX didn't comment Tuesday.