The Army is looking to increase the bandwidth available for satellite-enabled communications by using low- and medium-Earth orbit satellites as the technology to build them solidifies. Most satellites nowadays are geosynchronous and orbit high above the earth, about one-tenth of the way to the moon. Low-Earth orbit starts just above the Earth’s atmosphere. (NASA illustration by Robert Simmon)
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Date Posted: | 06.26.2019 16:38 |
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