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“Vaporizing a car’s worth of aluminum, other metals, and chemicals in the upper atmosphere, every hour, indefinitely? Not good.”
#spacedebris #space #sustainability #satellites #megaconstellation
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/musks-space-junk-is-a-threat-to-us-all/
“Vaporizing a car’s worth of aluminum, other metals, and chemicals in the upper atmosphere, every hour, indefinitely? Not good.”
#spacedebris #space #sustainability #satellites #megaconstellation
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/musks-space-junk-is-a-threat-to-us-all/
"Our measurements reveal an average brightness seven times brighter than mitigation targets cited in FCC filings and peak values over 200 times brighter than the International Astronomical Union’s recommended threshold (V magnitude 7). Now, AST SpaceMobile is expected to deploy over 200 Block 2 satellites that are each three times larger (199 m2) which would be three times brighter than Block 1 (all else being equal), and regulations have not changed."
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae8333/
"Our measurements reveal an average brightness seven times brighter than mitigation targets cited in FCC filings and peak values over 200 times brighter than the International Astronomical Union’s recommended threshold (V magnitude 7). Now, AST SpaceMobile is expected to deploy over 200 Block 2 satellites that are each three times larger (199 m2) which would be three times brighter than Block 1 (all else being equal), and regulations have not changed."
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae8333/
“ #SpaceX’s #Starlink orbital internet #satellites are falling out of low Earth orbit at an increasingly alarming rate, with one to two satellites now reentering Earth’s atmosphere every single day.”
“ #SpaceX’s #Starlink orbital internet #satellites are falling out of low Earth orbit at an increasingly alarming rate, with one to two satellites now reentering Earth’s atmosphere every single day.”
#Amazon is asking the #FCC to approve 5,105 massive new #satellites while hiding their orbital debris risk models behind a wall of corporate secrecy. The public deserves full transparency, because a safe and sustainable space environment belongs to all of us — not just to the highest bidder.
https://spacenews.com/amazon-files-application-for-direct-to-device-satellite-constellation/
#Amazon is asking the #FCC to approve 5,105 massive new #satellites while hiding their orbital debris risk models behind a wall of corporate secrecy. The public deserves full transparency, because a safe and sustainable space environment belongs to all of us — not just to the highest bidder.
https://spacenews.com/amazon-files-application-for-direct-to-device-satellite-constellation/
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