The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    41 year ago

    Are there even unpopulated areas that aren’t covered by one of the orbits required for populated areas? It is not as if you can have geostationary LEO satellites.

    • tal
      link
      fedilink
      3
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      It is not as if you can have geostationary LEO satellites.

      considers

      You could have part of a geostationary satellite at LEO altitude. That’s what a space elevator entails.

      That’s obviously not what they’re talking about doing here, though.