Timeline for Need reasons why a satellite network would not work
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Aug 6, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | MajorTom | Accepting #1 as the answer. There were so many good suggestions here and it was hard to decide. But ultimately this made the most logical sense for the colony, and didn't introduce any complications to what should really be a more simple issue. Thank you! | |
Aug 6, 2019 at 18:17 | vote | accept | MajorTom | ||
Aug 6, 2019 at 13:40 | comment | added | Falco | @MajorTom the system could also work like this: If you come from a city and your device already has a fix on the satellites, you can go much farther away without losing the fix (so people can leave the city and find back). But if you startup your navigation device far away from the city, the signal is simply to weak to get an initial fix and you are lost. | |
Aug 6, 2019 at 9:35 | comment | added | M i ech | @MajorTom Pretty much. Localized constellation will be literally impossible to reach from almost half the globe, and will remain poor at providing navigation data for remote areas, even when visible. As for communication capabilities, those will be more reliable, but still, places where satellites will be visible at shallow angles will have very spotty reception because of atmosphere and obstruction by ground features, assuming that antennae were designed to be omnidirectional, if sat antennae are more focused (less power neded), then you go "out of range" much faster. | |
Aug 5, 2019 at 19:29 | comment | added | MajorTom | To dumb this down, basically #1 you are saying that they just put enough sats in orbit to cover the populated areas and thereabouts. You can go "out of range" right? | |
Aug 5, 2019 at 12:45 | history | answered | M i ech | CC BY-SA 4.0 |