I don't know that geosynchronous matters much when it looks like this:
(Hawaii is the center of the map, and each white dot is a Starlink satellite)
Here's the app if anybody is interested in zooming in and watching them move around.
https://satellitemap.space/
Interesting fact: SpaceX put more hardware into space in 2024 than the space shuttle did in it's entire 30 years existence. SpaceX had 138 successful launches in 2024 (which was more than the total number of orbital launches by the rest of the world combined) compared to the space shuttle's 133* from 1981 to 2011. I understand it's an apples/oranges comparison because the shuttle was mostly crewed launches and often with varied mission objectives, I just thought it was an interesting achievement. SpaceX did have 5 crewed launches in 2024. There were many years the shuttle had 5 or fewer.
* Technically there were 135 shuttle launches. 133 were successful.
The problem with geosynchronous satellites is that the latency is so bad the connection is unusable for things like VOIP, gaming, skype, etc.
(Hawaii is the center of the map, and each white dot is a Starlink satellite)
Here's the app if anybody is interested in zooming in and watching them move around.
https://satellitemap.space/
Interesting fact: SpaceX put more hardware into space in 2024 than the space shuttle did in it's entire 30 years existence. SpaceX had 138 successful launches in 2024 (which was more than the total number of orbital launches by the rest of the world combined) compared to the space shuttle's 133* from 1981 to 2011. I understand it's an apples/oranges comparison because the shuttle was mostly crewed launches and often with varied mission objectives, I just thought it was an interesting achievement. SpaceX did have 5 crewed launches in 2024. There were many years the shuttle had 5 or fewer.
* Technically there were 135 shuttle launches. 133 were successful.
The problem with geosynchronous satellites is that the latency is so bad the connection is unusable for things like VOIP, gaming, skype, etc.