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Random thought: are the satellite trajectories "dense enough" that in the future when ships/people are trying to leave the Earth have to get a delay/launch window and the Starlink satellite(s) may get diverted around the area you're going through.



No, think of the sky in terms of the surface of the earth. The star link satellites paths are like a few highway stretched across the surface. Not only is it a tiny sliver cut across the glob, it’s also at a very specific LEO so the spacecraft wouldn’t even stop there in the vast majority of cases.


I see yeah I meant just flying through it. It would help to see a scale model of the completed orbits as it looks "worse" than it is. I'm not against it, though it would be nice if it was free ha.

side note: not related but the Eccentric Orbits book about Iridium was really good imo.


Well a scale model would be just the earth, you basically would never even see a satellite because they are so small.


right maybe they're emphasized to show the orbital pattern like this[1]

Or if it was scale/can't see it.

Which I suppose even so, that ship would have to be unrealistically massive to have problems flying through one of the gaps.

[1] https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/190208-s...




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