{"id":126279,"date":"2021-08-16T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-do-starlink-satellites-navigate-to-their-final-operational-orbits"},"modified":"2021-08-16T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:57:44","slug":"how-do-starlink-satellites-navigate-to-their-final-operational-orbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-do-starlink-satellites-navigate-to-their-final-operational-orbits","title":{"rendered":"How Do Starlink Satellites Navigate To Their Final Operational Orbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIQr1UyhwWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When SpaceX deploy batches of Starlink satellites they drop them off in lower orbits and expect the satellites themselves to navigate towards their final operational orbits. This is quite a complex process and one that\u2019s worth discussing, the satellites need to be able to reach the target orbital plane, raise the orbit to operational altitude, and then finally maneuver to a specific slot within that plane before they become operational.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite Orbital Maps by Celestrak.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/celestrak.com\/\">https:\/\/celestrak.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starlink Map by Mike Puchol.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlink.sx\/\">https:\/\/starlink.sx\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deployment plots by Elias Eccli.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/EliasEccli\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/EliasEccli\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/EliasEccli<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When SpaceX deploy batches of Starlink satellites they drop them off in lower orbits and expect the satellites themselves to navigate towards their final operational orbits. This is quite a complex process and one that\u2019s worth discussing, the satellites need to be able to reach the target orbital plane, raise the orbit to operational altitude, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1965,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mapping","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}