I received a lot of flack in my other posts for providing this data in conjunction with his efforts to raise money. I separated this post in order to comply with the rules. https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-approaches-investors-another-tender-offer-bloomberg-news-2023-12-06/
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Idk how this news isn’t mainstream. A loss of 1,000 satellites before the lifespan of 5 years is a major story.
Even if 100% of the stuff burns up, it’s a lot of energy and materials that needs to be constantly replaced. Seems like a lot of maintenance to keep the array operating long-term.
Also vaporizing metals being added to the upper atmosphere isn’t exactly great.
Isn’t great how? Like in a going to make global warming-worse way or going to give us cancer way?
Link here
Few months ago an article was published about how the rockets was warming the upper atmosphere and it was bad for it.
You make a good point there for sure. The lower the orbit, the faster the return and burn up, but the lower the latency as well. That’s why usual satellite internet sucks so badly. Those satellites are in geostationary orbit and light takes 0.7 seconds to get there and back.
This is what scares me the most. At a certain point, we’ll just have to go “whoops, our planet has no more resources to leech”, and we’ll be permanently stuck in stone age