Launching Server-sats
Thinsats are deployed in an approximately equatorial orbit, so that the ground antennas can have a fixed elevation above the horizon. An inclined m288 orbit would change elevation up and down 5 times per day.
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Server-sats peeled off the top of a cylinder of thinsats. The thickness is greatly exaggerated. There will actually be thousands of thinsats in a stack this tall, at about the same spacing as sheets of paper in a ream of paper. |
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