WRT orbiting debris; it's all good until the first "accident". Then we will see how this all shakes out. If it's bad enough, it could cause SpaceX (and all its brethren) to relinquish all the orbital space unless/until they provide a mitigation plan. To some extent they are structuring their constellation to de-orbit quickly already. Plus their sats are theoretically designed to de-orbit on their own at end of life.
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That explains what this whole CHAZ thing is, they wanted first chance at some space x bandwidth.
Im not a fan of star link, i think its going to cause some major debris field issues in space for future generations. But nobody can argue with the fact that it is really cool that a guy like musk exists who just wants to do some really cool shit, so he does some really cool shit. Every kid at some point in life said, I wanna go to mars. Hes just like, yeah, imma go to mars.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:04 PM Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
They are already peering in Seattle, and will only be northern latitudes for a year according to a "insider" ( there are hundreds if not thousands of them )....--
On 6/14/20 1:16 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
In case anyone was watching SpaceX put up another 58 Starlink sats on Saturday. That puts them at almost double the number they claimed to need to enable their "private beta". I'm sure it's underway, plus they're running some kind of test with the US military.
All the sats except for the first batch of 60 are of the 1.0 design. Depending on which news blurb you read, these sats all have to relay directly through ground stations, or they have some limited ability to go sat-to-sat via an RF link. We may find out before the end of the year.
They also stated that they c/would start the public beta when they had ~~ 800 sats in orbit. By my seat-of the pants estimation, that will be another 4-1/2 launches from now; maybe another 3 months. Call it September, but who knows.
I think the biggest obstacle at this point is their pizza box/flying saucer on a stick user terminal. I heard one estimate that the build cost for it are in the neighborhood of $1200.
I would say by the beginning of 2021, this topic will not longer be "OT".
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