• unexposedhazard
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    15 hours ago

    Whats the difference between the thin green horizontal ring and the wide orange horizontal ring that is slightly tilted?

    • Pencilnoob@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Green is active, orange is debris or dead sats. When a GEO sat runs out of life / power / fuel the operators are supposed to move it out of the main corridor to make room, so often they are in the same ring but higher or lower