<![CDATA[Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while.]]>Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. And I have an easily accessible hayfield to rage-scream in!! (Also maybe baby goats, I'll check for those too )

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/85c49841-bb93-4142-8de5-405dba058b6f/trying-to-edit-a-stupid-fcc-comment-on-yet-another-fucking-stupid-orbital-data-center-fuck-you-blue-origin-and-i-need-to-go-outside-and-rage-scream-for-a-while.RSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 04:25:36 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2026 15:22:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:30:20 GMT]]>@adamshostack @sundogplanets Yeah, I stumbled there too. "0.00001" what? Eggnogs? Square rabbits per furlong? Is it common in orbital mechanics to give no frame of reference? I would have expected something like "per satellite per hour" or somesuch.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/henryk/statuses/116404716895885133https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/henryk/statuses/116404716895885133Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:30:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:26:35 GMT]]>All this is beyond ridiculous @sundogplanets and very, very sad 😔

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/scozmos/statuses/116404702088358259https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/scozmos/statuses/116404702088358259Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:26:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:22:07 GMT]]>@martinvermeer No.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404684549518792https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404684549518792Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:22:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:48 GMT]]>@trenchworms Is that actually a shirt?! I need that shirt!!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404683302313537https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404683302313537Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:14 GMT]]>@sundogplanets

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/oldclumsy_nowmad/statuses/116404681076948864https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/oldclumsy_nowmad/statuses/116404681076948864Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:11 GMT]]>@adamshostack @sundogplanets Sadly in this case I suspect it's more "if you're not explaining it clearly it's because explaining it clearly looks *really* bad", since these are folks who absolutely know their stuff (at least legally and organizationally) and any weird lack of clarity is most likely intentional.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116404680893487892https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116404680893487892Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:20:24 GMT]]>Oh hey, there's an ASTRONOMY MITIGATIONS section!! All of the collective astronomy yelling and screaming is working!!!

...oh wait it's all total bullshit, because they don't actually have anything close to a satellite design or even a size. Three whole sentences at the very end of the document!! They care so much about saving the night sky and all of astronomy research!

And with that, I desperately need to go take a walk in the woods.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404677779972690https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404677779972690Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:20:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:19:49 GMT]]>@sundogplanets There is real nuance here. Systems like SpaceX’s Starlink are designed to mostly burn up on re-entry, but models are probabilistic—not guarantees.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/116331531079170149/statuses/116404675489481188https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/ap/users/116331531079170149/statuses/116404675489481188Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:19:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:19:40 GMT]]>@sundogplanets they will *start* larger than 10cm!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/rbmath/statuses/116404674892978243https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/rbmath/statuses/116404674892978243Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:19:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:49 GMT]]>@sundogplanets As I'm sure we both tell our students, if you can't explain it clearly, that's probably evidence that you're not thinking about it clearly.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/adamshostack/statuses/116404667640553188https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/adamshostack/statuses/116404667640553188Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:05 GMT]]>@sundogplanets What's more, is the 1e-5 the starting point, after which probability will be reduced by "at least 1.5 orders of magnitude" or the result of that reduction?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/adamshostack/statuses/116404664765747955https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/adamshostack/statuses/116404664765747955Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:16:10 GMT]]>@sundogplanets I don't study orbital risk, but I do study cybersecurity risk, and a probability without a timeframe is a sure sign of sloppy thinking.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/adamshostack/statuses/116404661181759044https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/adamshostack/statuses/116404661181759044Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:16:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:15:36 GMT]]>No mention of atmospheric pollution, of course, because the FCC doesn't give a shit about that. With SpaceX's 5 Starlinks a day a few months ago, we were well above natural infall rates of most metals, so 1 (presumably) gigantic satellite per hour will be a lot worse than that.

My colleagues and I wrote a bit about using the atmosphere as a satellite crematorium here, and it's bad: https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404658949478220https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404658949478220Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:15:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:15:06 GMT]]>@jgg @sundogplanets

There is a group called Lonestar Data Holdings that claims to offer "orbital data centers", by which they mean that they once paid to have an extra drive bolted on the side of a spacecraft used for something else.

But that is not what the current flood of "data centers in space" scams is about.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/michael_w_busch/statuses/116404656985044325https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/michael_w_busch/statuses/116404656985044325Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:15:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:14:41 GMT]]>@sundogplanets 51 collisions! Let's go!]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sns.minovsky.space/objects/1b7ae2af-6170-433a-8b37-2216b782eba5https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sns.minovsky.space/objects/1b7ae2af-6170-433a-8b37-2216b782eba5Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:14:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:14:04 GMT]]>@sundogplanets This reads suspiciously as 'we have no plan, so please give us permission for this epic idea'.]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sns.minovsky.space/objects/a879e66b-a206-4ed5-9b01-370ace806982https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sns.minovsky.space/objects/a879e66b-a206-4ed5-9b01-370ace806982Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:14:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:11:20 GMT]]>"Blue Origin will take all feasible steps to reduce the probability of collision by at least 1.5 orders of magnitude for any collision risk above a threshold which will be no higher than 1E-5" I'm an orbital debris expert and I'm not sure I can parse this sentence. But I'm sure it'll be fine!!

They say they'll get the collision prob down to 1 in 1000 for any periods of non-maneuverability. With 51,000 sats and a million more from SpaceX, these are great odds! (...of a collision)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404642121316929https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404642121316929Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:11:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:09:10 GMT]]>@sundogplanets my "please don't ask me about my debris mitigation plan" shirt is raising a lot of questions i had hoped would be avoided by wearing the shirt

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/trenchworms/statuses/116404633636350998https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/trenchworms/statuses/116404633636350998Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:09:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:08:04 GMT]]>To nobody's surprise, they will burn all their satellites up in the atmosphere, because that's what all the cool kids do. They don't actually say their operating lifetimes anywhere. But if they're 5 years like Starlink, then that's a bit more than one satellite burned up per hour.

And will they burn up completely? Well, they say they'll use the same NASA debris model to assess that said that the SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk would burn up. So I'm not worried at all!!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404629293606141https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404629293606141Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:08:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:06:01 GMT]]>@sundogplanets

Wouldn't it be fun if they were plain Raspberry Pis with little solar panels attached and a little parabolic?

So cute!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://qoto.org/users/jgg/statuses/116404621222357397https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://qoto.org/users/jgg/statuses/116404621222357397Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:06:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:30 GMT]]>@sundogplanets BTW do the documents address the cooling problem?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116404619191302714https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116404619191302714Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:01:16 GMT]]>@sundogplanets
some of my favourite satellites use(d) that orbit (WISE; SPHEREx) - it's great for surveyors

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dstndstn/statuses/116404602590459392https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dstndstn/statuses/116404602590459392Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:01:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:01:15 GMT]]>ORBITAL DEBRIS MITIGATION this part will be the most "fun"

But a reminder that they asked for a waiver for their debris plan, so I guess that this is just... for funsies?

Here's the first and only information I've seen about the satellite sizes. They will be bigger than 10cm, so they will be easily tracked! No shit!! A fucking data center needs to be bigger than 10cm! What useful information!!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404602508449622https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116404602508449622Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:01:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:00:13 GMT]]>@tadbithuman @sundogplanets
the Outer Space Treaty (1967) is the closest thing; and because negotiating international treaties is hard

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dstndstn/statuses/116404598407451636https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dstndstn/statuses/116404598407451636Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:00:13 GMT