Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoA European Starlink rival’s shares skyrocketed 390% in a week — here’s whywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down13
arrow-up1162arrow-down1external-linkA European Starlink rival’s shares skyrocketed 390% in a week — here’s whywww.cnbc.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoBye bye future space launches once we have full or partial Kessler syndrome. Bye bye earth based astronomy. But dang this tech is so much better than Hughesnet <ButtonPressingMeme>
minus-squaremholiv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoKessler syndrome doesn’t really apply for purely LEO satellites. They all burn up in a single digit amount of years. It’s not something to worry about yet.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoOn the contrary, I think it is something to avoid. Imagine letting a single person ground all space launches for 9 years. And all the pollution that adds to the atmosphere. All the junk landing on people’s farms or houses.
Bye bye future space launches once we have full or partial Kessler syndrome.
Bye bye earth based astronomy.
But dang this tech is so much better than Hughesnet
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Kessler syndrome doesn’t really apply for purely LEO satellites. They all burn up in a single digit amount of years.
It’s not something to worry about yet.
On the contrary, I think it is something to avoid. Imagine letting a single person ground all space launches for 9 years. And all the pollution that adds to the atmosphere. All the junk landing on people’s farms or houses.