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Saturday, October 16, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Rwanda Files to Operate 327,320 Satellite Constellation
This filing seems likely to be a 'let's establish that not all of LEO gets owned by the Americans' ploy. But it will be interesting to see how it plays out. The ITU filing is https://t.co/BtYYovpg2q
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) October 15, 2021
Satellite Network Filing RRW2021-42537 was received on 2021-09-21 for the “CINNAMON-937” constellation, which is described in the supplementary notes [PDF] as:
An orbital shell is here defined as the set of orbits with the same inclination. There are 27 of such orbital shells. Each orbital shell, except the equatorial shell made of one single plane, has a total of 12,960 satellites. The 27 orbital shells comprise of 327,320 satellites.
Satellites are to orbit at altitudes between 550 and 643.6 km in shells arranged by inclination,
Posted at October 16, 2021 13:49