As the satellite orbits Earth, these overlapping swaths create a two-dimensional map of the planet’s water surface, covering nearly all the world’s oceans as well as large rivers, lakes, and ...

The Gannon Storm also revealed behavior like “mass migrations” of thousands of Starlink satellites that performed automated maneuvers to raise their orbits to compensate for the increased ...

Polar orbits take the satellites over the Earth’s poles. The satellites travel very close to the Earth (as low as 200 km above sea level), so they must travel at very high speeds (nearly 8,000 m/s).