🌠 SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity | Technology | EL PAÍS English
"It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken”
@gimulnautti I feel that you're assuming a lot, essentially you're projecting your own imagination on an organization, a group of people functioning to solve complicated questions regarding risk and knowledge at the limit of normal engineering. This group of people is a poor surface for your psychological projection. A certain mogul maybe is a better surface but that doesn't remove the reality of engineering. That's why your post should tell anyone more about your believes than about SpaceX.
"#SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity
The International Astronomical Union demands that urgent action be taken against the uncontrolled proliferation of these devices. #Starlink satellites make it difficult to search for objects at risk of impacting the Earth"
Les satellites de #SpaceX menacent de cacher des astéroïdes dangereux pour l'humanité
L'Union Astronomique Internationale exige une action urgente contre la prolifération incontrôlée d'appareils qui rendent difficile la recherche d'objets présentant un risque d'impact sur notre planète.
From yesterday: Environmental advocates called it “a land grab of Boca Chica State Park land for a private space corporation that is clearly not in the public interest.” So why is the state parks agency seemingly so eager to work with #SpaceX? https://www.texasobserver.org/spacex-tpwd-park-land-musk/
More than 2,300 public comments flooded in—the majority negative—when the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission recently debated a proposal to trade away 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park, to #SpaceX.
🛰️ There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With SpaceX's Starlink | Futurism
「 Despite eclipsing the total number of all operating satellites in Earth's orbit, Starlink isn't just struggling to cut even. Experts are concerned that trying to provide the entire globe with internet via satellites — instead of expanding coverage with cell towers where needed — could prove difficult, with speeds already beginning to decrease in 2022 」
The satellite-internet devices are helping Russian fighters in Ukraine and paramilitary forces in Sudan; SpaceX hasn’t shut them off.
Sudanese authorities have contacted #SpaceX and requested help in regulating the use of #Starlink, including by allowing the military to turn off service areas where it was helping the RSF. Starlink never responded to the request, Sudanese officials said.
#SpaceX's market isn't the average city-dweller. It's the people in the rest of the world who, thanks to mobile phones, don't have anyone laying any cable nearby and are not likely to. Now, if I had a 200 tonne payload on #Starship V3 and a history of beaming stuff via #Starlink, know what I'd beam? Space-based solar power. Low altitude SPS from multiple interconnected satellites eliminates the need for geostationary gigastations. A small 1MW LEO one might weigh, oh, I dunno, about 200 tonnes...
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MethaneSAT jetzt im Orbit, nachdem SpaceX .. Mission .. gestartet hat. .. Satellit .. von einer gemeinnützigen Umweltorganisation entwickelt .., wird Methanemissionen erkennen, .. ebnet damit den Weg für mehr Verantwortlichkeit und eine schnellere Reduzierung. Eine Pressemitteilung des Environmental Defense Fund.
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Seeing some people read the news about #Boeing and #SpaceX and concluding that Elon Musk should build planes - which makes me wonder if they've ever heard of #Tesla
