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		JPLeRouzic on April 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Space Elevator Maybe because it's an old idea, from a time when non-GEO satellites were rare? (when I was a kid in the 60s/70s, the cool thing was geostationary satellites)

avmich on April 21, 2023 [–]

GEO is harder to achieve than LEO. There was never time when non-GEO satellites didn't outnumber GEO ones.

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