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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Shifting Satellites Nearer To Earth And Will It Have an Effect on Web Service? Particulars Inside

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Elon Musk SpaceX Starlink Satellites: When a satellite tv for pc is distributed into area, many individuals assume it merely stays there and does its job silently. We hardly ever take into consideration the place the satellite tv for pc sits or why its place issues. However for firms working 1000’s of satellites, altitude, alignment, and velocity are fastidiously deliberate choices and never fastened factors. Elon Musk’s SpaceX understands this …
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SpaceX has just announced a massive shift of its Starlink satellites to a lower orbit for security reasons, as the low Earth orbit is currently heavily congested and will increase the risk of collision. This will involve nearly 4,400 telecommunications satellites currently orbiting at about 550 kilometres above sea level and going down to about 480 kilometres this year. While previously thought that space, including low Earth orbit, was a relati…

SpaceX will reduce the orbital altitude of approximately 4,400 satellites in the Starlink constellation — from about 550 km to 480 km — by 2026, with the aim of increasing “space security.” Michael Nicolls, Vice President of Engineering at SpaceX, reported through the X platform that the decision is due to a physical phenomenon: as the solar minimum approaches, the upper atmosphere becomes less dense, lengthening the time it takes for inactive o…

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01net broke the news in on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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