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Hello from Seattle!

I’m here for the fall working on flight software for literal internet satellites and having the time of my life. Hope you’re enjoying life as much as I am!

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Out of interest roughly how much "flight capacity" (self motion ability post orbit injection) do literal internet satellites have?

Are we talking small gas thrusts, magnetorquer's, etc?

If it's mag torque, how much GMF modelling is involved?

I’m definitely not allowed to say, sorry!

Figured - always worth a try :-)

( FWiW I can think of several other ways to twitch a sat )

I can say that they have multiple station keeping and orientation methods. The ion thrusters are public info!

There's been some interesting work on rigid body attitude control with sliding weights of late (as an alternative to gyros) - all fun stuff.

My main hope for internet satellites and other massive constellations is they all shutdown over radio quiet zones and ideally do something about being so shiny in the sun .. I'm a fan of radio astronomy and the night sky.

Fingers crossed. :-)

Can’t say more :)

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