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But will it be enough to make satellites sustainable? 🛰 engineering

Barcelona-based startup Kreios Space wants to unleash the potential of very low Earth orbit satellite missions.

"Right now, very low Earth orbit is an unused orbit simply because of the lack of propulsion systems capable of staying in this orbit," Jan Mataró, Kreios Space CTO told IE in an interview at the Mobile World Congress."But it could allow for a What is very low Earth orbit?

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