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Starlink can now lower the minimum angle to 10 degrees for satellites operating below an altitude of 400 kilometers.
The FCC approved lowering Starlink dish minimum elevation angles to 10 degrees for satellites below 400 km.
KEY POINTS
- 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.
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