"In the past year, the amount of collision-avoidance maneuvers that needed to happen with the #Starlink constellation were an order of magnitude greater than they were in the past five years combined."
"#Taiwan continues to be wary of Musk’s deep business ties with #China and irked by his pro-Beijing comments. About 20% of #Tesla’s revenue comes from China, and more than half of its vehicles were built at its Shanghai gigafactory in 2022. When #Musk said last September that Taiwan was an 'integral part of China', Taiwanese foreign minister Joseph Wu publicly rebuked him...[:] '…Taiwan is not part of the PRC & certainly not for sale!'” https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/02/24/elon-musk-taiwan-spacex-starshield/#StarShield#StarLink#SpaceX
Venäläisen, selustassa tukitoimissa olevan sotilaan asemapaikassa käytetään Starlink-yhteyttä. Elon ja SpaceX kylläkin väittävät, että Starlink ei toimi venäläisille.
A russian behind-the-lines base uses Starlink for Internet service despite Elon's and SpaceX claims of no service for russians.
A russian behind-the-lines base uses Starlink for Internet service despite Elon's and SpaceX claims of no service for russians. Link to original (Finnish) article and its Google Translate version in OP above
@stacey_campbell I find it phenomenally fast and reliable in the UK. A worrying game changer for rural internet (e.g. it's existence may dissuade full fibre rollout as it could be difficult to get customers to shift from #Starlink to something else).
Za kilka dni przeprowadzam się w miejsce, gdzie Internet prawie nie dociera – jednymi opcjami jakie widzę to słaba sieć LTE albo Starlink. Może moglibyście mi polecić najlepszy możliwy modem / router i dobrą antenę zewnętrzną? Szukam alternatywy dla Starlinka, bo to dość kosztowny interes. #Internet#Starlink
The head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Fedorov, engaged in discussions with SpaceX founder Elon Musk regarding the usage of Starlink by occupiers on the frontlines even before the issue gained significant attention.
"There is another approach to ensure our Starlinks function, while those that are essentially reaching there via different means do not operate. This is the approach we're collaborating on with SpaceX," he stated. #AureFreePress#News#press#Musk#Mastodon#starlink
Perhaps the greatest threat is for a Kessler Syndrome event, wherein these terrible little satellites, lose control and start smashing into each other, creating a cascade of destruction that closes off space for generations.
@amgine@mastodonmigration From ~500km, you're look at around 10 years for orbital decay to drag them down, and during that time if they knock out something else, that will start it's own decent journey, so things quickly get exponential.
Longer term the real concern that really hasn't been addressed is the atmospheric pollution caused both by launch engines themselves (which are absolutely filthy and wildly resource intensive) and by the burning up of debris both in launch and disposal. There are large quantities of metals, plastics and propellents being burned in a completely uncontrolled manner in the upper atmosphere, at quantities which are already having a measurable impact on the atmosphere itself. The more junk Elmo yeets to orbit, the worse this is getting, and there is zero long-term plan for managing any of this - indeed, the plan such as it exists at all is explicitly to use our atmosphere as completely unfiltered, uncontrolled incinerator.
The fun doesn't stop there as the ISS operates around 400km, below the Elon Zone, so all the shit he creates will impact on the ISS, as well as the numerous other essential missions that need lower orbits.
Rebecca Solnit wrote: “I don’t know whether these #billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city that’s been my home since 1980 & used their wealth to undermine its diversity & affordability, demonise its poor, turn its politicians into puppets & push its politics to the right. They have produced many kinds of dystopia without ever deviating from the line that they are bringing us all to a glorious utopia for which they deserve our admiration.
By producing such extremes of wealth, tech is returning us to a kind of feudalism, with a few powerful figures accountable to no one. Here’s #ElonMusk, the world’s richest person, who invited in misinformation, disinformation & hate, providing a platform for extreme right-wingers, racists & #conspiracy theorists, while also using his #Starlink#satellite technology first for & then against the Ukrainian military in their conflict with #Russia. ” #SanFrancisco#SiliconValley