Table 1.
Orbit configurations.
Altitude | Inclination | nsat | nplane | nsat × nplane |
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Starlink Generation 1 | 11 926 satellites | |||
550 km | 53° | 22 | 72 | 1584 |
540 km |
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22 | 72 | 1584 |
570 km | 70° | 20 | 36 | 720 |
560 km |
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58 | 6 | 348 |
560 km |
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43 | 4 | 172 |
335.9 km | 42° | 60 | 42 | 2493 |
340.8 km | 48° | 60 | 42 | 2478 |
345.6 km | 53° | 60 | 42 | 2547 |
Starlink Generation 2 | 30 000 satellites | |||
328 km | 30° | 1 | 7178 | 7178 |
334 km | 40° | 1 | 7178 | 7178 |
345 km | 53° | 1 | 7178 | 7178 |
360 km |
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50 | 40 | 2000 |
373 km | 75° | 1 | 1998 | 1998 |
499 km | 53° | 1 | 4000 | 4000 |
604 km | 148° | 12 | 12 | 144 |
614 km |
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18 | 18 | 324 |
Amazon Kuiper | 3236 satellites | |||
630 km |
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34 | 34 | 1156 |
610 km | 42° | 36 | 36 | 1296 |
590 km | 33° | 28 | 28 | 784 |
OneWeb Phase 1 | 1980 satellites | |||
1200 km |
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55 | 36 | 1980 |
OneWeb Phase 2 revised | 6372 satellites | |||
1200 km |
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49 | 36 | 1764 |
1200 km | 40° | 72 | 32 | 2304 |
1200 km | 55° | 72 | 32 | 2304 |
GuoWang GW-A59 | 12 992 satellites | |||
590 km | 85° | 60 | 8 | 480 |
600 km | 50° | 50 | 40 | 2000 |
508 km | 55° | 60 | 60 | 3600 |
1145 km | 30° | 64 | 27 | 1728 |
1145 km | 40° | 64 | 27 | 1728 |
1145 km | 50° | 64 | 27 | 1728 |
1145 km | 60° | 64 | 27 | 1728 |
Notes. The table includes all the satellite constellations considered in this paper, totaling almost 60 thousand satellites, providing the orbital altitude and inclination, number of satellites within an orbital plane nsat and the number of orbital planes nplane making up the constellation (consisting of nsat × nplane satellites). These are the constellations for which supporting information is available. These constellations are therefore to be considered as representative of a plausible situation by ∼2030, but the exact details of the distribution of satellites may be different.
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