Comment on Elon Musk loses over 400 satellites in 3 months according to data from space-track.org (defense contractor used), and over 1,000 for the lifespan of the company

• Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also vaporizing metals being added to the upper atmosphere isn’t exactly great.

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    • Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t great how? Like in a going to make global warming-worse way or going to give us cancer way?

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      • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        [> There are several effects this could have on Earth and the atmosphere. The presence of these particles could affect how water freezes into ice in the stratosphere, and influence the size of stratospheric aerosol particles. They could also induce salt deposition on aerosol particles, and alter the stratospheric refraction of light.

        These may seem like subtle changes, but they could have unintended consequences that we really ought to investigate, the researchers say.](sciencealert.com/space-junk-is-invisibly-pollutin…)

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      • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Few months ago an article was published about how the rockets was warming the upper atmosphere and it was bad for it.

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  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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• ilovelemmy12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Data showing it’s happening within a day.

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