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		admash on Jan 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oh, 2022 Note: Starlink orbits at an altitude of 340-350 miles . Hughesnet’s geosynchronous orbit has an altitude of 22,000 miles. That is over 62 times higher, not 4. FWIW.

stickfigure on Jan 10, 2022 [–]

I apologize, you are quite correct! Not quite sure what my brain was doing there, I was looking at those same numbers and somehow typed 4.

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