Elon Musk: “They're at an altitude of about 550 km, which is called…”

“Yeah. So Starlink, there's several thousand satellites in low earth orbit and they're moving around 25 times the speed of sound in these. They're zipping around the earth basically. And They're at an altitude of about 550 km, which is called generally low earth orbit. Because they're at low earth orbit. The latency is low because the distance is not that far compared to a geostationary satellite, 36,000 kilometers.” (24:10–24:18)

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