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If something hits a house then you can analyze what hit it. I wouldn't make a conspiracy out of it. Meteor and space junk are quite different things.
You can , but what if they don’t want to?
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You can , but what if they don’t want to?
Space junk would come down in other countries, too. Even if there was a great conspiracy of "them" in the USA, there's plenty of others to report on it.
The key to strategic usage of deorbiting is that the mass is already in position, and only needs to be properly wielded.
No amount of “investigation” or reporting would stop that from happening.
And what's the effect on cancer rates, etc. from all that toxic pollution to both launch the satellites and then vaporize them in the atmosphere years later?
https://bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellites-p...
Sure would be nice if the answers to these questions were not guessing before we do the damage and impossible to fix after
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You don't have to buy real estate.
Land is pretty much irellevent in the cost. The Utah Data Center [0] is a 200 acre plot with 35 acres of buildings. Even prime farmland values is arround $10k an acre, or $2m, but for other land you're talking $400k for that much land [1] It uses 65MW. The solar panels alone to generate that cost $100 per kW in bulk, or $6.5m. That's 570GWh a year. Mount Signal 1 Solar plant, from over a decade ago, produces about th…
SpaceX and Amazon seem to be headed for competing with traditional telecoms and ISPs. I'm betting the next acquisition target will be AST SpaceMobile. I also wouldn’t be surprised to see big telecom/ISP mergers pass regulatory approval now that they have competition from the heavens
Traditional ISPs already have a nice network of copper and fiber optic cables. I don't think satellites offer any advantage to most people here, except for those living in an area with slow wired connections.
When companies work together on things, like spectrum and constellations and handset deals it changes how people get billed.. It does not change the fact that people want to keep the messages small when millions of devices are using the same channel.
I am curious to see if people will still talk about having satellite access or if they will start talking about paying for what they use once this is up and running. D2D technology is still going to be used for these messages.
Oh, I missed the memo that Amazon Leo is the new name for Project Kuiper, rebranded in November of last year. I saw a presentation back when it was Kuiper so have still been calling it that
People think that with better D2D technology, emergency and telemetry messages will still be short and to the point. These messages will not be like streaming videos. When companies work together on things, like spectrum and constellations and handset deals it changes how people get billed.. It does not change the fact that people want to keep the messages small when millions of devices are using the same channel. I…
Starlink already has to constrain the number of broadband accounts per locale to avoid saturation.
I remain convinced that the main successful business model in the satellite communications industry is to wait for the first incarnation of the satellite company to fail / go bankrupt / flounder, and then be part of the 2nd round of financing or ownership that comes in to buy it out and operate it... I don't know why this is the pattern but it seems to have played out several times over the last 2 decades that I've c…