# Starlink can now lower the minimum angle to 10 degrees for satellites operating below an altitude of 400 kilometers.

*aerospace · news · 2026-04-27 · BGR*

## Key points

- The FCC approved lowering Starlink dish minimum elevation angles to 10 degrees for satellites below 400 km.
- User terminals above 62 degrees north latitude can now connect at elevation angles as low as 5 degrees.
- The approval enables SpaceX to launch over 19,000 Starlink satellites and reduce their orbit by 200 km.
- Lower angles expand dish field of view, boosting network latency, uptime, and maximum active connections.
- This rule change directly addresses decades-old spectrum-sharing limits that restricted Starlink’s rural coverage.

**Companies:** SpaceX
**Countries:** United States, Canada

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