Toroidal Orbits

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Apogee Skew

Here is an array of 125 server-sats in a 3 dimensional equal-spacing grid, looking inwards towards the ground as the array completes a 4 hour orbit. In actual fact, maneuvering will be used so that all the server-sats are not obscuring each other from the ground, or shading each other from the sun. As well, they will be offset to avoid grating lobes in the RF pattern. But this sure is pretty...

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