From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Remember  Wednesday, when  JF Mezei asked plainitively:   
   > On 2021-08-25 22:55, Snidely wrote:   
   >   
   >> It could, with refueling, and there will be payloads where that's the   
   >> appropriate choice.  There aren't now, but there will be.   
   >   
   >   
   > Does it make sense to launch 2 super heavies, one to refuel starship o   
   > it can deliver payload to geostationay altitude and then come back?   
      
   It depends on the payload.   
      
   > People complained about Shuttle being inefficient because of its total   
   > weight vs payload. Won't the same argument apply to Starship being used   
   > to deliver satellite to Geo?   
      
   It depends on the payload.   
      
   > And in turn of Starlink, once it goes into a mode of constantly   
   > replacing satellites that fall down, does launching Starship with a   
   > gazillion gapacity only to deliver 10 in a particular orbital plane make   
   > sense?   
   >   
   >   
   > or is the plan to launch 120 new ones to a new orbital plane and abandon   
   > all satellites in old orbital plane neary? Again, seems wasteful.   
      
   Why abandon the old satellites while they are still working?   
      
   Go watch Scott Manley deploy the current orbital planes.   
      
   But yes, Teslarati reports that the SpaceX Gen2 docs seem to show 120   
   satellites into a single plane.  I think I'm not over-reading when I   
   say that Gen2 will be in higher orbits, so you can have a full Gen2   
   plane shadowing a not-done-for-yet Gen1 plane, but then ... as Scott   
   Manley points out ... the higher altitude will precess at a different   
   rate.   
      
   But it's all about having multiple Starlinks pass over you while you're   
   passing data.  If some of those are grey-haired Gen1s and some are   
   young and shiny Gen2s, is that a problem?   
      
   /dps   
      
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