Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 1 day agoEspecially with the number of them it’s probably cheaper to just put up new satellites. LEO sats are designed to be temporary.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Cheaper and easier to upgrade the constellation to newer and faster tech. If you have backwards compatibility, you just start launching v2 and v1 will eventually just burn up, and hopefully finish just in time for v3 to start launching so you only have to be compatible with n-1 versions.