http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/07/12/009207/o3b-launches-four-more-satellites-to-bring-internet-to-other-3-billion http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2521
it's a very minor point and of minority interest, but it seems, after years of simulating ambitious satellite constellation designs that don't get constructed or launched, that ns-2 simulations of satellite constellation networks do, in fact, match reality. This would be a lot harder to do with ns-3, which lacks ns-2's orbit simulator. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood