Smaller GEO communications satellites can be built and launched for less than predecessors.
Credit: Astranis
Geostationary Earth orbit is back from the dead. A year or two ago, the regime looked like the next graveyard orbit after an onslaught of low-Earth-orbit communications satellites—especially SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation—killed off the economic future for big telecommunications spacecraft...
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