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Cell hand-offs don't happen nearly as frequently as they would for an LEO constellation.

The orbital period for a satellite at 550 km is ~01h 36m. That means any given satellite is going to be visible for a very short period of time, which means hand-offs will have to be extremely frequent.



Approximately every 2.5 minutes in fact.


That's per satellite; each satellite is going to have multiple beams, so you'll have to do a beam handover like every 15 seconds and a satellite handover every couple of minutes




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