But it is vulnerable as fuck to the railroad car with nails. All you need to get rid of all that satellites is just launch few dozen tons of nails on the polar orbit at the same altitude and release them with blast. Within few days all that satellites would become a cloud of rubble.
So, that satellites constellation is too vulnerable to be something more than just satellite constellation.
To use it in supposed manner, for all that ultimate surveillance and control things, elites have to be shure that there are no any power left that could launch a few dozen tons of nails into the orbit. Otherwise they could fall into situation when such power could easily blackmail them as it want, since elites tied all their important stuff to that highly vulnerable structure.
And the role of such power could be played by any rogue military commander with access to ballistic missile (it could perfectly launch few tons of nails to starlink orbit) or those who work in space industry with access to launches.
At best Starlink is a beta version of such elites plan. Proof-of-concept, nothing more. Or elites lost last bits of intellect and believe in their own dreams completely.
Small debris and unused nails will just burn in high atmosphere without any significant effect on surface. In the worst case you will just have slightly increased meteor activity within few years after wiping out starlink constellation.
Really it is overhyped concern in all. Not everything that goes up will fall down in any observable time. Navy satellite from 1964 (Transit 5B-5 if you are interested) that went rogue after a week of operation is still alive (but kind of crazy, singing senseless, but sometimes very nice songs when exposed to sun, listen them on 136.5MHz LSB modulation when it is over you at daytime), being unattended for nearly 60 years and will not fall down from his 1000km orbit in closest millenias, and will continue to amaze us singing his crazy songs in sunrays.
Only LEO satellites expirience some significant drag and lose speed noticeably.
Also, threat of space garbage to new satellites is miniscule, since it is not even 100 thousand cars on whole Earth, it is 100 thousand cars on whole earth on endless different layers. Probability of occasional unintended collision is very small, at least on current level of space expansion we have.
I feel you misunderstood my point. Each Starlink satellite is massive enough to be used as a weapon itself. A short retrograde burn could send the 250kg mass straight down onto (assumingly) any launchpad-sized area on Earth. We need the Space Nails.
I'm more interested now in the 136.5MHz sun song. What do you hear, an interpretation of solar winds?
But it is vulnerable as fuck to the railroad car with nails. All you need to get rid of all that satellites is just launch few dozen tons of nails on the polar orbit at the same altitude and release them with blast. Within few days all that satellites would become a cloud of rubble.
So, that satellites constellation is too vulnerable to be something more than just satellite constellation.
To use it in supposed manner, for all that ultimate surveillance and control things, elites have to be shure that there are no any power left that could launch a few dozen tons of nails into the orbit. Otherwise they could fall into situation when such power could easily blackmail them as it want, since elites tied all their important stuff to that highly vulnerable structure.
And the role of such power could be played by any rogue military commander with access to ballistic missile (it could perfectly launch few tons of nails to starlink orbit) or those who work in space industry with access to launches.
At best Starlink is a beta version of such elites plan. Proof-of-concept, nothing more. Or elites lost last bits of intellect and believe in their own dreams completely.
My concern is this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Everything that goes up must come down.
Small debris and unused nails will just burn in high atmosphere without any significant effect on surface. In the worst case you will just have slightly increased meteor activity within few years after wiping out starlink constellation.
Really it is overhyped concern in all. Not everything that goes up will fall down in any observable time. Navy satellite from 1964 (Transit 5B-5 if you are interested) that went rogue after a week of operation is still alive (but kind of crazy, singing senseless, but sometimes very nice songs when exposed to sun, listen them on 136.5MHz LSB modulation when it is over you at daytime), being unattended for nearly 60 years and will not fall down from his 1000km orbit in closest millenias, and will continue to amaze us singing his crazy songs in sunrays.
Only LEO satellites expirience some significant drag and lose speed noticeably.
Also, threat of space garbage to new satellites is miniscule, since it is not even 100 thousand cars on whole Earth, it is 100 thousand cars on whole earth on endless different layers. Probability of occasional unintended collision is very small, at least on current level of space expansion we have.
I feel you misunderstood my point. Each Starlink satellite is massive enough to be used as a weapon itself. A short retrograde burn could send the 250kg mass straight down onto (assumingly) any launchpad-sized area on Earth. We need the Space Nails.
I'm more interested now in the 136.5MHz sun song. What do you hear, an interpretation of solar winds?
No these satellites are tiny. About 1 kg each.