DARPA PLANS to repurpose retired geosynchronous satellites. No doubt a useful but challenging task. What surprises me, though, is that there are roughly 1,300 satellites in geosynchronous orbit; that works out to about 100 miles (or 0.3 angular degrees) between satellites if they were uniformly distributed in orbit (and they're not).
It's getting crowded up there.
No comments:
Post a Comment