NASA Warns That SpaceX Satellite Swarm Could Kill Astronauts

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20 points·camjohnson26··7 comments

The way things are going with micro-sats, is it not an issue of e.g. whether 1 company launches 30,000 or 100 companies launch 300? There could easily be 100 parties doing micro-sats just from the US, never mind the rest of the world.

Seems like less an issue of Starlink in particular and more of an issue with the "end game" of micro-sats.

Think a bigger issue is 100 companies with 30000 satellites, why would space x be the only one allowed to do it. It seems like a forgone conclusion that some nation will allow it and it will happen

spacex is the only company with the launch capability to pull of a constellation like that. why would they give up that monopoly to anyone? I don't even think china or russia could outpace them at this point, nevermind boeing, Lockheed, Blue Origin, or any of the other US companies

Because a private company can do something does not mean it should be allowed to do it, does it?

It's already bad enough with Starlink, but surely it's only a matter of time before other companies and governments want to compete. Which makes me wonder if governments should not just agree on forbidding it entirely.

Space x is the only company who will ever be able to launch a bunch of satallites? That seems very silly to say

Pretty sure they mean currently not indefinitely

In 2017 ISRO achieved to launch 104 small satellites in sun synchronous orbit in one go.

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