I know little about the subject matter but expected to see higher density around the equator. Unless I'm mistaken, geo-stationary satelites need to remain there(?)
They do but geostationary is at an altitude of 35,786km. That gives a circumference of 264,869km and an arc length of 736 km per degree. That is a lot of space to fit satellites.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
You can see geostationary satellites if you zoom out. They are more apparent if rotate to look down from the poles. It looks like a faint ring.
There aren't that many geostationary satellites. They need to stay spaced out to avoid each other. The result is a few, large satellites instead of the large cloud of ones close to Earth.
not an expert, but from what I have gathered they are launched in clusters that end up in such a "train" formation, later to launch into a more spaced out constellation at a higher altitude.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 40.2 ms ] threadI know little about the subject matter but expected to see higher density around the equator. Unless I'm mistaken, geo-stationary satelites need to remain there(?)
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
There aren't that many geostationary satellites. They need to stay spaced out to avoid each other. The result is a few, large satellites instead of the large cloud of ones close to Earth.
Anyway, very cool and click on individual dot give you the orbit. Still not sure how to find the geostationary one though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
source with neat animations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/sta...