Editing Space (section)

==Low Earth Orbit==
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) refers to the region from 160 kilometres (99 mi) - 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) above sea level. This is home to many satellites, including (in our world) the International Space station at 400km up.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit Wikipedia: Low Earth orbit]</ref>

Several satellites orbit [[Earth Bet]] for applications in communication,<ref>“You’ll each be provided with a satellite phone before you leave, with mobile phones to use when the towers are in operation again. - [[Snare 13.1]]</ref><ref>Only two kids were sleeping there, both clearly brother and sister.  It was as much privacy as she was going to get.  She plucked the satellite phone from her pocket. - [[Interlude 14]]</ref><ref>My phone lit up as a connection was established to a satellite.<br><br>A moment later, the connection was secured.<br><br>The clock changed, followed by a time zone and a symbol.  ''Four forty-six, Eastern standard time, Earth Bet.''<br>[...]<br>Towers surrounded Brockton Bay, set on mountaintops and high ground within the city itself.  It necessitated a careful approach.  As we passed between two, I saw that they were communication towers, crafted to put satellite dishes at high points rather than provide shelter. - [[Venom 29.1]]</ref><ref>PRT divisions and precincts in neighboring cities were all too willing to send along staff and officers to assist, but her firm requests for the fundamentals -for computers, printers, satellite hookups, electricians and IT teams- were ignored all too often. - [[Interlude 13]]</ref> internet,<ref>“No,” I heard Tattletale, “Separate power source, buried deeper beneath the building.  Same with the computers, there’s nothing upstairs or even in the city that could turn them off.  They’re hooked up to that power source, they’ve got internal batteries, and the only external connection is by satellite linkup.  They might terminate our connection to the computer database via the satellite feed, but not the lights.” - [[Parasite 10.3]]</ref><ref>You state your location as the north end of Brockton Bay, profess to have a generator and satellite internet.  Ok, not unheard of. - [[Interlude 19.y]]</ref> TV,<ref>The first things I’d done after Coil’s men had unloaded the furniture and supplies was to hook up an internet connection and computer and get my television mounted on a wall and connected to a satellite. - [[Infestation 11.1]]</ref><ref>“Nuh uh.  No way.  If you two want to play hardass mom and dad and be controlling assholes, okay.  But you can’t tell me I can’t watch T.V.”<br><br>“I mean you won’t get any channels.  There’s no cable, no digital connection and no satellite.  Only static.” - [[Monarch 16.6]]</ref> observation,<ref>“Yeah, and unless something’s changed,” Kevin said, “The only person he listens to is me.  He’d come when I was alone, when the weather was bad or in the dead of night, and however he comes, nobody ever followed him here.”<br><br>“They can’t follow him with cameras or satellite, I heard.  Have to rely on eye witnesses and global communication to track him.” - [[Interlude 18.x]]</ref><ref>And then there was Nilbog.  The data focused around him.  The city was quiet, and the roads leading into the city were being watched by satellite. - [[Interlude 26.x]]</ref> and imagery.<ref>The war room sat opposite Aisha’s room, on the same floor as his.  It wasn’t large, but it didn’t really have to be.  Satellite images of various locations around the city had been printed out onto four-by-five foot sheets of laminated paper, rolls shelved on the wall with labels in marker.  They varied in size, with some extending over the whole city, while others covered the various territories. - [[Interlude 15.y]]</ref><ref>“Los Angeles?” Chevalier asked.  “What area?”<br><br>“''That'' area,” Defiant answered, looking at the computer.<br><br>Chevalier nodded slowly.<br><br>Golem stared at the screen.  He could see the satellite image, the concentric circles that marked the area around the blinking blue dot. - [[Interlude 26a]]</ref> [[Dragon]] also has her own satellite network to use for remote access,<ref name="II16.1 eDragonLimit" /> communication,<ref name="I16.3e1" /> and backups.<ref>Example:  one phase of the peripheral systems check involved collecting the uploaded data that had been deposited on the satellite network by her agent system, the onboard computer within the Cawthorne rapid response unit.  Her last recollection was of transferring her consciousness to the agent system while it was en route to deal with the Undersiders.  Stopping them from walking away with the tier 2 and tier 3 confidential data was high priority.<br><br>The agent system’s onboard computer was rigged to upload complete backups to the satellite every 3 minutes and 15 seconds.  All backup information was encrypted and disseminated to the satellite network in chunks.  When the backup was needed, the process reversed and everything was downloaded, which was what she was doing at the moment.  She would get all knowledge and recollection of events between the time she backed up at the core system and the last backup of the agent system.<br><br>Given that the main computer hadn’t received a signal from the agent system, and that the agent system hadn’t responded to any pings from the satellites, she could assume the Cawthorne model was probably destroyed. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/interlude-10-5-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref><ref>Years ago, Saint had preyed on Dragon, shutting off her ability to connect to her satellite network, using several of these same mechanisms to slow down and hamper whatever mech or device she was inhabiting.  He would kill her, block any final uploads, and leave her to self-revive from an hours-old backup with no knowledge of what he’d done or how he’d beat her. - [[Last 20.a]]</ref> Multiple space programs exist.<ref>Posted on August 15th, Y1:<br><br>To call the efforts of everyone involved heroic would be grossly understating things. This IT project required the efforts of seventy eight PHO staff members, employees of Stateside Online, former officials of the US government, former members of the United States space program, members of international space programs, the Guild (Masamune in particular), and numerous independent experts and volunteers. - [[Glow-worm P.1]]</ref>

Satellites are still in use during<ref>“I tried to set things up so we’d have some way of maintaining communications and getting ''some'' information in, getting information out.  Like, I told people about what you said about Scion hating duplication powers.  Anyways, only the very high tech and very low tech have really survived.  Satellites and hard copies.” - [[Venom 29.1]]</ref><ref>My ranged capes aimed for portals once again.  This time, I put the exit portals against Earth’s atmosphere, aiming for the general direction of a satellite.<br><br>It took thirty seconds of sustained fire before Shén Yù’s power stopped telling me it was a weak point.  Other thinker powers in my range were giving me similar feedback.  A cape with perfect eyesight was telling me it could even see the explosion. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref> and after [[Gold Morning]].<ref>People got lost or stranded in the wilderness on Earth in 2012, with all that world’s satellites. It can and will happen in new universes. - [[Glow-worm P.6]]</ref><ref>Shower: It’s interfering with others’ ability to access things. It might not seem like a problem here, because you’re close to the home node, but there are people on the periphery or far-flung regions and they’re going from satellite to ground to satellite to here, across several Earths. - [[Glow-worm P.7]]</ref><ref>His computer had a battery of its own, and the machine it was hooked up to gave it a satellite feed.  In a vast sea of darkness, with much of the city unlit at this late hour, people were retreating to Gary’s tent. - [[Interlude 7.y II]]</ref><ref>“Overlaying to satellite image of the area.”<br><br>On the largest screen, a map appeared, just large enough to have the New York district in its bottom left and Brockton Bay in the top right.  Icons with their own abbreviations worked into them were scattered across the city, many flowing from the same general point. - [[Polarize 10.3]]</ref><ref name="II16.1 eDragonLimit">“As was I, for the latter part.  Dragon is immensely powerful, but she, like any tinker, is dependent on her pre-established work to function at optimal capacity.  The Dragonslayers knew this and used it against her in the past.  Teacher used it against her here.  With no satellites to use for remote access except the ones she deployed after passing through the portal, she was limited in what she could do.  If she dies without redundant systems and infrastructure behind her, she dies for good, just as any of us would.” - [[From Within 16.1]]</ref><ref>The main screens switched to each show half of an overhead view.  Satellite camera.  The epicenter of the attack, the clouds of smoke from the resulting destruction, and those cracks that spread out, like that from the tap of a hammer on a windowpane, except in three dimensions, not two.  A city in black and white, with a shadow of gold due to the prevalence of the solar windows reflecting tinted light down onto snow. - [[Interlude 17.z II]]</ref><ref>“I don’t know what it is.  The capes in Breakthrough’s area have gone quiet.  Phone lines are down, satellites are struggling with all of the interference.  But we can’t reach them.” - [[Interlude 17.z II]]</ref>

[[Parahuman]] abilities generally begin to display issues at some point between the upper atmosphere and 400km out; the main portion of the [[passenger]] supplying the ability remains on Earth, and the connection between the parahuman and their passenger suffers from the distance. The precise point where issues arise varies, however, with the passenger being more lenient if the parahuman is doing something interesting (i.e. generating conflict). In addition, "broken" passengers and powers that can absorb energy can overcome this limit.<ref name="R1"/>