Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
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shame if all those satellites lost their ability to be maintained
I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? They’d just burn up in the atmosphere. More than likely the government would just take possession of the system if they had a critical dependency on them.
Kessler syndrome, and historically starlink’s satellites don’t always burn up in the atmosphere as they should
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Kessler syndrome, and historically starlink’s satellites don’t always burn up in the atmosphere as they should
For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.
From this article:
At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell.
“In those altitudes, we can probably do a lot and we will be forgiven,” Linares says.
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For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.
From this article:
At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell.
“In those altitudes, we can probably do a lot and we will be forgiven,” Linares says.
uh huh. spacex fans are fucking wild
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For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.
From this article:
At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell.
“In those altitudes, we can probably do a lot and we will be forgiven,” Linares says.
Agreed in general, but debris from collisions can head upwards as well.
For example, Kosmos-1408 orbited at about 475km and left debris from 300-1100km. This is an older debris chart, but it shows that event in red.
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uh huh. spacex fans are fucking wild
anyone else who wants to tell me “for the millionth time” about how it’s super safe to fill low-earth orbit with unprecedented amounts of literal garbage in pursuit of creating a shit-tier ISP that’s sucked hard every time I’ve used it is welcome to take it up with the professor of astronomy that wrote that last article
“it’s not Kessler syndrome unless it’s from the Kessler region of space, otherwise it’s just sparkling Rods from God” fuck you
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SpaceX is actually really fucking successful, why would be destroy it by tainting it with shitty AI? Oh right, because he’s a moron who does way too much ketamine.
I’m assuming you mean operationally but not financially? They wouldn’t have to raise capital so much if it were financially so…
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I’m assuming you mean operationally but not financially? They wouldn’t have to raise capital so much if it were financially so…
I’m using the success rate of the Falcon 9 rocket and how many launches they do as my metrics. If they’re not doing well financially then they’re making some questionable financial decisions.
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I’m using the success rate of the Falcon 9 rocket and how many launches they do as my metrics. If they’re not doing well financially then they’re making some questionable financial decisions.
no space bois thx
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I’m using the success rate of the Falcon 9 rocket and how many launches they do as my metrics. If they’re not doing well financially then they’re making some questionable financial decisions.
Spacex, walking the path of something solved literally 4 decades ago: blows up many rockets
Yeah, super successful. As a grift of course, because that’s what it is
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When Woke 2 comes, we’ll nationalize SpaceX.
We can turn it into a horror-themed exhibit park. And sell vip tickets for using some of the more particular roams as rage rooms, just smash all that nonsense up
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SpaceX can’t go bankrupt… You won’t let us go bankrupt… It would be a shame if all those satellites lost their ability to be maintained. This is how he becomes too big to fail.
@Seaguy05 @techtakes Bear in mind SpaceX's near monopoly is transient: Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is now flying and re-using New Glenn and ramping up launch cadence aggressively. Give it 5 years and unless Starship works 100% to plan, SpaceX will be eroding like Tesla today. (And this ignores the multiple Chinese reusable launcher startups with government backing.)
