Good News! Public tracking data used by defense contractors from space-track.org now officially shows Elon has lost over 5% of his fleet in 2 months. He can no longer keep up with launches.

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• Anduin1357@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The conclusion is brain dead. Can anyone even confirm that SpaceX is losing more satellites than they’re launching?

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  • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This person has posted this multiple times. They keep getting banned then making a new account. They’re trying to drive traffic to their crappy website. So highly doubtful it’s true.

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The eventual "end state" for Starlink is to be in an equilibrium state where new satellites are constantly being launched to replace the ones that age out and fail. I have no idea what OP is on about with "not being able to keep up", though, the constellation is nowhere near that state yet.

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    • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the current problem is that as the gen 2 satellites are bigger and heavier they can’t launch as many.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Karma sure is a bitch.

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• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Starlink needs to fail ASAP for the good of humanity.

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  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why? While it's an energy intensive process to launch all these satellites, it's probably a lot less than the environmental cost of running a fibre connection to every customer who uses this service. Sure Musk is a bit dodgy, but he's not the majority owner of Starlink.

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    • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kessler syndrome, explained at 18 minutes in:

      odysee.com/…/debunking-starlink:8?

      But I recommend watching the whole thing because it shows just how absurd Starlink is.

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