Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT.
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SpaceX just got approved for 15,000 more direct-to-cell satellites: https://www.fcc.gov/document/spacex-approved-ngso-mss-system-direct-device-services
Giant, bright, radio-loud. Fuck. I just saw SO MANY SATELLITES in my sky. Guess there will be more. And then lots of debris.
@sundogplanets Doesn't SpaceX already have more satellites in orbit than any other organization by a fair margin at this point?
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@sundogplanets Doesn't SpaceX already have more satellites in orbit than any other organization by a fair margin at this point?
@sundogplanets Jesus Christ this is worse than I thought. https://orbitalradar.com/satellites-by-operator
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets I would very much like for SpaceX to stop existing.
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets Musk doesn't own space
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets
While I hate Elon musk, I think the idea of starlink is not a bad one. And yes there desperately needs to be some public tracking for satellites, much like commercial aircraft. -
@sundogplanets We should rebrand SpaceX
️ == SpaceTrash️@stux @sundogplanets It is already the case considering how trash X is
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets Well said!
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@sundogplanets @syvash @f4grx these bastards would definitely use a Kessler event as an excuse for WWIII
@KanaMauna @sundogplanets @syvash nah I meant I just wish a kessler syndrome for the megaconstellations, not the others. Impossible, I know.
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SpaceX just got approved for 15,000 more direct-to-cell satellites: https://www.fcc.gov/document/spacex-approved-ngso-mss-system-direct-device-services
Giant, bright, radio-loud. Fuck. I just saw SO MANY SATELLITES in my sky. Guess there will be more. And then lots of debris.
@sundogplanets Why the fuck is the US approving that crap over our (EU or any other) sky and why is the EU eating it? Rhetorical, of course
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets SpaceX is nearing towards the FO phase of the FAFO cycle.
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@mathify bold of you to assume we're getting through the next 100 years with all our toys intact. @sundogplanets
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Oof. My dark sarcasm levels have shot through the roof and entered orbit. Time to sign off for the night.
@sundogplanets I’d like to see other countries all sue the USA for polluting the skies we all share. Maybe that would give them pause on this “give the billionaires anything, everything their shrivelled little hearts desire.
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets Musk's thing is always first mover advantage to dictate markets. I would not expect anything else here.
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Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty.
Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too.
@sundogplanets Shoving so many sats into orbit is just plain overbuilding.
A real solution would use terrestrial infrastructure when available, and use satellite as a fallback. This would reduce the need for nearly as many satellites, and vastly improve performance.
Such a solution has already been ratified into the 5G NR standards with support for NTNs (non-terrestrial networks). This will provide the required handoff, without making low-earth-orbit unusable via satellite collisions.
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