Rocket Lab Electron Flight 10 Aborted
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Rocket Lab Electron Flight 10 Aborted
If that's the case now, what's it going to be like when there's another 42 thousand satellites up there?
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Re: Rocket Lab Electron Flight 10 Aborted
At scifi fete Armadillo Con 41 in Austin, Texas, last summer, our Science Guest was Moriba Jah (now at UT) who tracks space debris in non-Newtonian paths. (Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriba_Jah )Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 12:54 pm If that's the case now, what's it going to be like when there's another 42 thousand satellites up there?
The problem, such as it is, (my opinion, not Dr. Jah's) is the lack of property rights. No one owns orbits, so anyone can do anything they can get away with. It is the tragedy of the commons. See the posts here about the the SpaceX "Starlink" cluster launch. There's a neologism: cluster launch.
Just to take a contrarian stance, though, at our club's public outreach star parties, we are happy to be able to point to the
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