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Sh36fjk374fjc t1_j24tv9j wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in SpaceX launches 54 upgraded Starlink internet satellites and nails rocket landing at sea in 60th flight of the year by ovirt001

Yeah but we’re not putting earth satellites by mars, they’re orbiting earth (by definition) so the area involved is much smaller than “Space.”

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Surur t1_j24vvyb wrote

So there are 1.5 million cellphone towers in the world, and that is just on land.

An orbital shell 500km up has a surface area of 593 million km2.

So if SpaceX managed to get 40,000 satellites in orbit, that would be one satellite every 15,000 square km. That is one satellite for the same surface area as Connecticut or 10 for Illinois.

That is a lot of Space between each satellite.

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