China to Deploy 13000 low Earth Orbit Sats

[glend]

I was reading this morning about China's plan to deploy 13,000 low Earth orbit satellites, in order to be able to implement
Anti-Starlink strategies and 'claim' available spots
in low Earth orbit. Called Project GW. Unknown when this will start.
If you are annoyed by Starlink interference with Astronomy, well double that. It is yet to be determined how large these devices will be nor details concerning what "anti-Starlink" means, are these weaponised?

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3211438/china-aims-launch-nearly-13000-satellites-suppress-elon-musks-starlink-researchers-say

I should note that the above link to SCMP is likely a mouthpiece for the Chinese govt.

[Crater101]

It's going to get to the point where launching any sort of deep space mission is going to require tricky navigation through the maze of satellites.
Wasn't aware of this article, thanks for the link!

[strongmanmike]

Foreseeable issues, lack of will to address pro actively, $billions invested, then too late, then denial of the problem, then just oh well too bad not my fault too hard to change now anyway....

Humans, we can't help ruining natural environments, it's seems to be the fifth amino in our DNA...adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) cytosine (C) and selfish (S)

Mike

[xelasnave]

I have had a vision..thanks pain killers...New software that analyses a sub and subtracts trails before it goes in the pile.
Should be easy so who ever does that sort of thing can you get onto it so all these folk getting stressed have nothing to worry about.

Alex

[AdamJL]

Probably because their balloons keep getting shot down….

[Nikolas]

Beat me to it :lol:

[xelasnave]

This morning 4-45 am ? maybe? I saw a "line" of light in the South East travelling North at an angle of approximately 30 degrees to the horizontal and similar angle to the horizon ... it was as long as my thumb is wide held at arms length (approximate).I presume it was a line of satellites...if not then what?

I could not say there were individual points of light as it was a little foggy.

I would have thought that satellites would be spaced a " fair" distance from each other so I began to wonder what I saw...


Alex

[N1]

Project Kessler might have been a better name for it

[glend]

Alex, it was the latest string of Starlink satellites that were launched last night from Cape Canaveral. These were the new Version 2 mini sats, supposedly.
They form a line as they are deployed.

[xelasnave]

Wow and they drove past my place so I could have a look..that was nice of them.

I gather they spread out eventually.


Alex