you can call it a rocket, pickle hammer space boat, whatever. anything with
some folks inside will always answer as a shuttle
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:51 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shuttles stopped flying in 2011.
>
>
> bp
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> On 6/15/2020 10:48 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
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> they already had a near miss once.
>
> I cant image if a shuttle hit one of these, the debris spread we would see
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:36 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Theoretically a Ubiquiti Nanostation was carrier grade and would do
>> 150Mbps. It said so on the datasheet.
>>
>> Just saying maybe the small, cheap satellite will work exactly as
>> intended and maybe it'll have a firmware crash during a sunspot and just
>> become a piece of high velocity garbage. Even a low failure rate over many
>> years could eventually leave a whole crapload of them buzzing around up
>> there.
>>
>> .....I'm sure people smarter than me have thought of all that. Haven't
>> they?
>>
>>
>> On 6/15/2020 1:26 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>> On 6/15/2020 9:48 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
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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".
>>>
>>> If you want to get notification when they can service your area, go here
>>> <https://www.starlink.com/>.
>>>
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