Starlink v2 satelites will ruin science.

I'm confused because band pass filters exist. Can they not add a filter to eliminate the frequencies that starlink uses?

Also, the starlink satellites use phased array antennas, guess that wasn't a great idea either.

"Don't worry, you can just build one on the moon. You can even pay me to use my rockets to get there." - Elon

Great. Musk is building a Sophon.

Fuck Leon Skum

I'm sure Musk is perfectly willing to turn certain constellations off at specific times... For a price, of course.

Sending so many satellites also requires so many rocket launchers that Google passed on it because it was too polluting.

Starlink is the poster child of "fuck you, I got mine."

starlink wouldn't have a leg to stand on (in the US, can't speak for elsewhere) if isps were held to installing/maintaining/upgrading infrastructure that was already paid for by the federal government decades ago and then the isps just didn't do the work.

Isn't Starlink also too expensive because you have to replace the satellites every 5 years? As in you'd have to sell to basically everybody on earth to be profitable. And they charge 50Euros a month, almost twice as much as I currently pay, and I'm satisfied with my current provider.

Don't forget all the fun chemicals they leave in the atmosphere when they deorbit.

Is it weird I agree these are terrible and yet also hope this spurs the end of ground based observation in favor of a larger orbital presence?

Fuckin space garbage is what it is.

Yes it was impressive that they landed a rocket again once, but the quantity of launches and satellites is doing nothing good for anyone. It should've been a stepping stone for better technology, but instead they're just mining money. Privately owned space engineering is a disgrace to humanity.

Space engineering used to unite even the worst opponents as with the international space station, but now those institutions are underfunded, while billionaire space-musk can shoot his loads into the atmosphere without any regard to the rest of the worlds population living inside said sphere.

Tax the asshole already.

To me Elon Musk is like the real-life, slightly less dramatic and slightly less evil Handsome Jack out of Borderlands

Thats the plan - and nothing will be done because there is no law, no faith, only money.

Democrats are no better. They'll argue for women's or trans rights (when convenient) but even most of their "progressive voters still worship at the altar of Money and think to limit greed in any meaningful way is inherently sinful.

If it can interfere with large aperture ground telescopes.. it would be a shame if those ground telescopes grew transmitters and started interfering back.

What’s up with some meme communities and people not posting memes on them?

All worth it so lord Musk can push his shitty memes to remote tribes in the Amazon.

Don't worry, greed ensures that Kessler Syndrome will get them in the not too distant future. Sure hope you aren't reliant on GPS or other satellite services, but at least, for a shining moment, shareholders got some value. /s

Down em all then. We need a satellite with lasers to take out other satellites: whether it's Russia's, China's, or Elon's.

Is the majority of high detail astronomy done from earth or is it done with satellites? I'm struggling to understand the significance of this

Pentagon: Link 16+++++v2 go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Theoretically if you started lasering these down somehow from international waters... uh, what would happen? Hypothetically?

Starlink, isn't that the planetwide wi-fi initiative? Do they need those emissions to function? Other than the fact that it's from a corporation, it seems to me that internet connectivity across the whole planet would be more valuable to humanity as a whole than clearer views of space on one invisible part of the spectrum (which they can still watch from space if it's that important.)

Though the competition between multiple corps trying to launch satellites doesn't seem good, and it'd be nice if some FOSS initiative and/or intergovernment collaboration were to step in and make it one set of satellites free for everyone.

I mean maybe this is the push they need to actually spend the cash and get one up in space that is away from natural interferences as well?

Sucks for the home radio Astro guy, but they have the solution, have had for a long time.

He literally came all over the planet and ruined it... More.

But... memes.

And also how does space law work? If you launched a predator satellite that starts taking these out, again, launched from international waters, is that, like, illegal? Considering they're a private company?

If we had the money, there's no legal repercussions to going up there and deorbiting the satellites right? Maybe install a defense platform to shoot down any more from spacex, oneweb or whoever else tries putting them up.

Where's the FCC and ITU on this?