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Where are Satellites around the Earth (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] grue 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's also overly simplistic about the types of orbits, so it has no excuse for bad visualization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It also makes it look like we are covered with satellites. Imagine if there was 8100 cars spread all over the planet, and that’s it. Each car would be incredibly far apart. This distance is even greater on a bigger sphere above the surface of the earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's also wildly not to scale. LEO is a few hundred kilometers in altitude, while GEO is 36,000 kilometers in altitude.