Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
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Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
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#2Welcome to the dystopian future where no human anywhere on Earth can look up and see an authentic sky, as their ancestors did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/science/starlink-spacex-a...
And thanks to SpaceX (and now Amazon), astronomers will now have to do their observations from space. If only there was a way to get telescopes up there. Oh, wait... SpaceX just happens to have a way to solve the problem it created!
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#3I wonder if it would ever make sense to set up some "IXP satellites" so that Amazon and SpaceX's (and whoever else enters this space) various LEO networks could switch in space.
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#4Should anybody be putting satellites up without some credible plan for decommissioning them from the atmosphere?
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#5Should anybody be putting satellites up without some credible plan for decommissioning them from the atmosphere?
If this is anything like SpaceX's constellation, the plan is that the orbits will naturally decay in < 10 years and they will burn up in the atmosphere upon re-entry.
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#6Sure. "Internet." That's ALL they'll be doing up there.
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#7Should anybody be putting satellites up without some credible plan for decommissioning them from the atmosphere?
Decommissioning plans are part and parcel of any satellite launch. These small ones will deorbit pretty rapidly if they are told to do so and a bit slower if it happens uncommanded once they are unable to maintain altitude.
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#8It seems like no coincidence that Amazon is also building a ground station network as part of AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
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#9Anyone wanna offer me their hypothesis on what Amazon and other tech companies gain from offering internet to people who probably aren't valuable consumers?
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#10At what point should we start worrying about Kessler Syndrome?
> The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading or ablation cascade), proposed by the NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.[3] One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations.[3]