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Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 children)

Yay, more space junk, and knowing Google they would abandon the whole thing a couple years in when it gets boring and leave them to rot.

Edit:not actually sat, which makes it weird to call a 'starlink competitor' then, but I don't write the headlines.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

At sufficiently low orbits, the satellites would simply deorbit themselves because of the atmospheric drag. Several Starlink sats have been lost this way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, more thinking the wasted time, resources, and emissions involved in building, launching, managing, and then whenever makes it down.

Take all that and make something useful instead, whatever happened to Google fiber being built out all over? More reliable, faster, doesn't involve sending piles of redundant satellites into space...