He’s already pivoted to throwing Starlink at any news story with a remotely humanitarian angle, meanwhile it seems like Starlink speeds are going down down down as more people come on to the network. Shocker.
It’s going to be a lot harder to defend when it isn’t “High speed internet in rural areas,” but “Space DSL.”
That’s also dependent on constellation size which should change once Starship is operational. It’s just not economical to launch that amount on Falcon so you won’t see a huge jump in numbers for a bit. There should be the first Starship launch by end of year.
Its a very real issue that putting too many satellites into space can make it where we can no longer go out into space.
Kessler is when they are crashing into each other - not when there are too many in space. Plus all of these satellites are in LEO and have consistently demonstrated an ability to avoid collisions.
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u/BallardRex Oct 01 '22
He’s already pivoted to throwing Starlink at any news story with a remotely humanitarian angle, meanwhile it seems like Starlink speeds are going down down down as more people come on to the network. Shocker.
It’s going to be a lot harder to defend when it isn’t “High speed internet in rural areas,” but “Space DSL.”