SpaceX to press ahead in 2019 with Starlink Internet satellites - technical hurdles

[gary]

Michael Koziol reports today in IEEE Spectrum (https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/spacex-confident-about-its-starlink-constellation-for-satellite-internet-others-not-so-much)that, despite technical
glitches, SpaceX plans to launch the first of nearly 12,000 Starlink
internet satellites in 2019.





Story here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/spacex-confident-about-its-starlink-constellation-for-satellite-internet-others-not-so-much

[phomer]

And I thought we already had enough junk orbiting the Earth to cause concern without adding to the problem.
Paul

[multiweb]

If we get that many satellite trails our subs will start looking like a Van Halen guitar design. :lol: PixInsight might lauch a trail removal process. I wonder what they'll name it. :question: "EMCA - el mucho crosso ablatione"

[glend]

Congestion Tax. Charge them for each square centimetre of space they occupy, along with an Environmental Levy for the pollution caused by their launch. Each launch must be approved on the basis of life span management responsibility and disposal.

[multiweb]

An article (https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2004/?lang)this morning about it.