SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched
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#2"The number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017"
Does this vehicle not have a name? Or is the reporter too lazy to look it up? BBC never fails when it comes to its Anti-India stance.
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#3Estimates are that the spacex starship could launch 240 starlink satellites. I can't imagine how many cubes they could hold.
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#4Estimates are that the spacex starship could launch 240 starlink satellites. I can't imagine how many cubes they could hold.
So one current generation Starlink satellite is estimated to weight about 260. One one unit cubesat weighs 1 kg.
So discounting small details like deployment mechanisms and volume:
260 x 240 = 62400 cubesats for one Starship launch by weight.
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#5"The number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017" Does this vehicle not have a name? Or is the reporter too lazy to look it up? BBC never fails when it comes to its Anti-India stance.
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#6"The number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017" Does this vehicle not have a name? Or is the reporter too lazy to look it up? BBC never fails when it comes to its Anti-India stance.
The mission was PSLV-C37, but they also didn't tell you that the SpaceX flight was F9-106 or that it flew on booster B1058. Would you describe that as the BBC's anti-American stance at work? Or maybe the serial numbers tacked on to the missions aren't really newsworthy, and anyone who wants more specific details can type "104 satellites" into google?
I vouched you comment back up because I think it's worth linking, but no need to ascribe some sort of malicious motive to the BBC here.
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#7"The number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017" Does this vehicle not have a name? Or is the reporter too lazy to look it up? BBC never fails when it comes to its Anti-India stance.
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#8Are satellites the size of books required to have a method of self de-orbiting? Or are they in orbits that have limited lifespans?
Re: SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched
#9Estimates are that the spacex starship could launch 240 starlink satellites. I can't imagine how many cubes they could hold.
So one current generation Starlink satellite is estimated to weight about 260. One one unit cubesat weighs 1 kg. So discounting small details like deployment mechanisms and volume: 260 x 240 = 62400 cubesats for one Starship launch by weight.
I know these cubesats don't stay up for long in LEO, but at what point does it become too many cubesats?
Re: SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
So one current generation Starlink satellite is estimated to weight about 260. One one unit cubesat weighs 1 kg. So discounting small details like deployment mechanisms and volume: 260 x 240 = 62400 cubesats for one Starship launch by weight.
I know these cubesats don't stay up for long in LEO, but at what point does it become too many cubesats?
How can we spin this as a bad thing, right?