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Comment by jnovacho

16 hours ago

They mean the intersection between the cone produced by the satellite and "illuminated" surface. If the antenna beam is normal to the sphere, it will produce a disk which has an diameter.

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slow_typist  16 hours ago

This, and 1/3 of earth’s surface is the maximum you can see from geostationary orbit.

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