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  2. Low Earth orbit - Wikipedia

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    A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. [1]

  3. Very low Earth orbit - Wikipedia

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    Very low Earth orbit is a range of orbital altitudes below 400 km (250 mi), and is of increasing commercial importance in a variety of scenarios and for multiple applications, in both private and government satellite operations.

  4. Iridium satellite constellation - Wikipedia

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    An omnidirectional antenna was intended to be small enough to be mounted on the planned phone, but the low handset battery power was insufficient for contact with a satellite in geostationary orbit, 35,785 km (22,236 mi) above the Earth; the normal orbit of communications satellites, in which the satellite appears stationary in the sky.

  5. Chinese rocket breaks apart in low-Earth orbit, creating a ...

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    For reference, the International Space Station orbits about 254 miles (408 kilometers) above the Earth. Slingshot’s Horus sensor systems, which provide satellite tracking in low-Earth orbit ...

  6. EagleEye (satellite) - Wikipedia

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    EagleEye is an Earth observation satellite in very low Earth orbit. It is the first satellite developed and operated by the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), as previous Polish satellites, PW-Sat, BRITE, and Intuition-1, were designed and operated by private firms.

  7. Starlink - Wikipedia

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    In September 2023, satellite operator SES announced a satellite internet service for cruise lines using both the Starlink satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and SES' own O3b mPOWER satellite constellation in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Integrated, sold and delivered by SES, the SES Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink service claims to combine the best ...

  8. List of orbits - Wikipedia

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    Average altitude of 384,403 kilometres (238,857 mi), elliptical-inclined orbit. Beyond-low Earth orbit (BLEO) and beyond Earth orbit (BEO) are a broad class of orbits that are energetically farther out than low Earth orbit or require an insertion into a heliocentric orbit as part of a journey that may require multiple orbital insertions ...

  9. How Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network is aiding the ...

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    In July, the U.S. Air Force granted SpaceX a $1.9 million contract for Starlink services in Europe and Africa, noting that the system “is also the only LEO [low-earth orbit] satellite network ...