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Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test (www.space.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test::Amazon's Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to launch next year.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh good, more space junk in LEO

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's LEO. If they shut off navigation tomorrow, they'd all be falling cinders in a year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd like to hope that in a few years when we collectively decide this was a bad idea we can start hitting them with lasers and ablatively decelerating them to burn up in the atmosphere.

I mean I don't have a lot of hope for that, but call it a wistful fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’d like to hope that in a few years when we collectively decide this was a bad idea we can start hitting them with lasers and ablatively decelerating them to burn up in the atmosphere.

If we do nothing at all they'll burn up in 3-5 years anyway. Starlink operates in a very low orbit. Thats one of the reasons there have to be so many of them. A higher orbit (like MEO instead of LEO) would mean fewer needed satellites for the same level of coverage of the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I want to SHOOT THEM DOWN. Send a FUCKING MESSAGE.

(I know you're right I'm just a cranky pants)