Help: 'failures_url' seems outdated... about starlink-coverage HOT 6 CLOSED

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Unfortunately, the list of failed satellites that I used before is no longer maintained and I no longer have access to the data. The data was previously provided by another Starlink visualization tool author (see context here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/hc6jus/a_daily_coverage_map_for_starlink/fvglhot/?context=3 )

Before I used this curated list of failed satellites, I just approximated which satellites were operational based on altitude but the issue is that as more satellites were added some were at different shells heights so the approximation began to fail. We can go back to a more conservative system where satellites below a certain altitude are not considered functional but will introduce a little bit of error.

I don't believe Starlink provides information about which satellites have failed and are being decommissioned anyways so its just been based on observations by observers anyways.

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Thanks for the info!
BTW when I run the simulation, it generates a file "h3_4_cov_0.txt" is generated, and each line has two numbers separated by a comma, such as:
8457507ffffffff,349

Could you explain what information those two numbers carry?

Thanks again!!

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I've figured out the output. Thanks!

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Leaving this here in case others would benefit, the 2 numbers are the H3 cell id and the minutes of satellite coverage per day.

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