The space junk problem is only going to get worse isn’t it?
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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Just like the Starlink sats, these are at very low orbit. They will not produce junk, they will burn up in the atmosphere.
Long term, anyway.
Yes, but there are several groups around the world looking at solutions. It's a solvable problem.
Imagine if radical space junk protestors started destroying satellites.
Probably would create more space debris in the process, but I could see something like this happening?
We are all trying to prevent Kessler Syndrome, not induce it! Lol.
Kepler syndrome Speedrun any%.
We, as a species, absolutely deserve what's coming for us.
In the future we will have no night sky. All of the SciFi movies got it wrong.
*Between each satellite. That doesn't mean you personally are getting that bandwidth, depending on the other details of the project.
It doesn't increase connection speed, the downlink to earth is a factor of the frequency and coding mechanism. What these links do is allow satellites to pass traffic between each other rather than down to earth and back up again. The way this works best is if each unit in orbit has data held in cache. That way a request from a customer only makes the round trip a limited number of times.
It can also be used to extend range of in-orbit terminals when they are out of range of an earth based POP by passing that data to a satellite that is in range. But 100Gbit isn't very fast, so that'll end up being a balancing act.