China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
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Re: China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
#2The big problem is debris. These higher satellites will take hundreds of years to fall out of orbit if they end up malfunctioning.
Re: China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
#3The big problem is debris. These higher satellites will take hundreds of years to fall out of orbit if they end up malfunctioning.
Nothing is a problem on a short enough timeline.
Re: China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
#4I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
Re: China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
#5The big problem is debris. These higher satellites will take hundreds of years to fall out of orbit if they end up malfunctioning.
Yeah they'd better have some kind of deorbit engine. A starlink is only around for 10 years or so.
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#6I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
I don't use the damn satellites and I miss the version of the sky I did use. The sats are so damn distracting when you're just stargazing. Space used to be the last place we could (mostly) gaze beyond the reach of man. From here on out it's the human circus, 24/7.
Re: China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
#7I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
"It was us that scorched the sky" :/
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#8I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
I don't use the damn satellites and I miss the version of the sky I did use. The sats are so damn distracting when you're just stargazing. Space used to be the last place we could (mostly) gaze beyond the reach of man. From here on out it's the human circus, 24/7.
There's been visible satellites in the sky literally my entire life. And airplanes. The newer generation of satellites (whether Starlink or Iridium's replacement satellites) are significantly less bright and less disruptive, not more, though they are still swamped by airplanes in less remote places.
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#9I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
You only see satellites when the sun has recently set, when a few hundred kilometers up is still in sunlight. The rest of the night you don’t see satellites at all.
It’s not great that there are satellites visible for an hour or so after sunset, but it’s not like you’ll never see the night sky again.
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#10USA really beefed it by throwing out the spirit of the space weapons treaty with starlink. Everyone knows its a dual use military technology.