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		ChicagoBoy11 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three day... Wait, are you saying each Starlink sateline is 16 thousand square miles large?

nomel 61 days ago [–]

The surface area of the sphere at their altitude divided by 14k satellites gives each 16k square miles of surface area.

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