SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites into orbit

I watched the launch from my back yard

Amazing people accomplish amazing things.

I applaud what Musk has done to revolutionize launch vehicles.

SpaceX is going to be one of the largest company in the world in 15-20 years.

The AvengerToday  08:43 am JST

Amazing people accomplish amazing things.

I applaud what Musk has done to revolutionize launch vehicles.

SpaceX is going to be one of the largest company in the world in 15-20 years.

Still, it's associated with NASA. It is making space flight more affordable and more easily accessable. The more this is done, more people will get to fly into space. I'd love to, even if it is for only a few minutes like in the case of William Shatner. Everything starts somewhere with someone.

Still, it's associated with NASA

NASA is just a customer, albeit a very big one.

Pretty amazing stuff. It actually works!

Not quite so happy about long, long strings of artificial lights across the night sky, though.

The light pollution of the night sky is a major drawback, these could have been engineered to be non reflective but greed as ever rules and all the companies putting up these swarms have gone for the cheap an shiny option.

You can actually copy Data, straight from the ISS, on a frequency of 145.825MHz, FM.

”Packet Radio” @ 1200/9600BPS is sent continuously.

I wonder what the plan is to de-orbit these things when they reach the end of their useful life? Is there a plan to de-conflict all these small satellites from the larger one? How much more stuff can be put up in orbit before there are collisions?