Alessandro Peluso
Megaconstellations: is it possible to achieve the same performance using fewer satellites?
Rel. Lorenzo Casalino. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2022
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The new frontier of the Internet will be satellite connections through which it will be possible to provide broadband Internet with global coverage in the coming years. This will be made possible by constructing mega-constellations of satellites operating in low Earth orbit (LEO) or very low Earth orbit (VLEO), ensuring very competitive latency times far shorter than the latency times experienced with current geostationary constellations. Among the constellations that will be active in the coming decades, Starlink is the one that is currently attracting particular attention as its final configuration has a huge number of satellites and its deployment is already underway.
This high number of satellites greatly concerns the scientific community mainly because it dramatically increases the possibility that the Kessler syndrome may be realized, and thus space will become inaccessible for the next decades or centuries
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