LEO, MEO and GEO

The three commercial regimes compared on latency, coverage, radiation and cost.

Scope

• Altitude, period and orbital velocity by regime
• Latency and link budget consequences
• Radiation dose and design lifetime
• Coverage geometry and the satellite count it implies
• Cost per unit of delivered capacity

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.