Competion for Starlink

[AKA-None]

Here you, we go https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare

The funny part is we’ll soon have enough satellites that no one is getting off this planet without serious risk of getting nailed by one of these

[AKA-None]

Originally Posted by chubby

a-freakin'-men


i'm all for a collaboration of like thinking individuals towards a common goal.
meaning individuals with differing ideas on how to reach that goal....yet working together.

the predisposition so many folks have towards "group think" and that mob mentality absolutely gives me the heebie-jeebies.. in human history the "individual" has never been a cause of bad times. (ever)


for the waterman/cruiser/sailor i see no negatives to Project Kuiper...
ignoring competition and limiting potentially monopolistic behaviors...

a different network simply = redundancy. which is always a good thing.


concerning space junk...
people need realize just how big our sky actually is and how little we humans and out little trickets actually are.

1000s of (known)space debris light up our sky each year...

imo, there could be million new low orbit satellites and it would still be insignificant
(fwiw i believe the starlink birds only have a lifespan of only 5 years)

AI assisted Nancy Grace Roman and the James Web space telescopes are a godsend to astronomers...land based observation is already obsolete.

3 1/2 years not 5 if memory serves me correctly

[GordMay]

A Starlink satellite has a lifespan of approximately five years and SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation. [12,000 by their FCC deadline in 2027]
As of July 2023, there are 4,519 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 4,487 are operational.
➥ https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html


The 3,236 Kuiper satellites will have a seven-year operational lifetime.
➥ https://www.space.com/fcc-approves-a...llation-kuiper