Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency
fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The ISS is planned to deorbit in 2031: nasa.gov/faqs-the-international-space-station-tra…
Wonder if the FCC ruling will change after it comes down?
That’s still a lot of satellites floating around that can get in the way. And it doesn’t even include the other LEO providers like Project Kuiper spooling up.
piecat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
At some point there will be more satellites than is feasible to manage.
If they aren’t already, will we start treating them like telephone poles or cell towers?
sirspate@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It’s already a bit of a mess to manage, especially if you include the debris. Back in 2007 China blew up a satellite, and as of a few years ago that represented almost a third of all tracked space debris… (it has its own wikipedia page) If these jokers ever start deliberately blowing up each others’ satellites, we could end up in a situation where space becomes inaccessible.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Nope, everyone knows that the best source of power is humans. Mobius even admits like two lines later that the machines even have fusion power, and then no one ever talks about that ever again. The whole movie makes no real sense when you think about it.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 months ago
Ooh, reference to the Matrix.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 months ago
There’s wildly different orbits. Starlink flies low and has a decaying orbit due to atmospheric drag meaning nothing is going to stay up there for very long. They designed them to just burn up on reentry after ~5 years. Stuff in much higher orbits are more of an issue because they don’t experience the same amount of drag.