[ih] SpaceX may spend billions to outsource Starlink satellite-dish production, an industry insider says — and could lose $2,000 on each one it sells

[John Day]

Time to re-read, Heinlein’s The Man Who Sold the Moon.   ;-)

> On Nov 26, 2020, at 04:23, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> I presume that all of these satellites will be located above the United States, or does the FCC have jurisdiction over the whole world's airspace?
> 
> The other question I have is what makes this offering different to past failed LEO offerings? We're told "this time it will be different" yet the world's moving towards a better and more efficient use of resources (it needs to) and there's nothing green about a LEO network. Remember that the earth's gravity has not changed in the past 20 years. Unless someone's worked on it, it remains at 9.80665 m/s^2. What goes up must come down. the lifetime of a LEO satellite is anything between 5 to 7 years.
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> On 26/11/2020 00:07, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history wrote:
>> in late May:
>> 
>> --> SpaceX submitted an application to the FCC for its second generation
>> system of 30,000 Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellites
>> https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-LOA-20200526-00055/2378669.pdf
>> via
>> https://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2020/06/04/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-2/
>> 
>> --> OneWeb has told the FCC that it wants to increase the number of
>> satellites in its constellation to 48,000, viz.:
>> https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2020/05/27/oneweb-explains-fcc-application-for-48000-constellation-satellites/
>> 
>> and at the end of July:
>> 
>> --> The FCC granted Amazon approval on Thursday to build out Project
>> Kuiper, its planned constellation of 3,236 satellites in Low-Earth Orbit
>> https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2020/07/31/fcc-approves-amazons-kuiper-constellation/
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:12 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> the keyboard of geoff goodfellow wrote in
>>>  <CAEf-zriE35fPZDoAffzW0fwtpvtxk2VqSXodu0s4jQDXC4Y+7Q at mail.gmail.com>:
>>>   ...
>>>  |   - *SpaceX recently launched a public beta test for Starlink, its
>>> growing
>>>  |   network of internet-beaming satellites
>>> 
>>> Sorry not to step in cheering this.
>>> I think now the time has come to raise massive taxes on these
>>> things which violate the heaven above.
>>> The sheer number of rocket resource needed to keep these lines
>>> closed is ridiculous.  Is there any science going on on improving
>>> the situation regarding this?  Space lift?
>>> And i am very, very thankful that at least the newer satellites of
>>> _that_ company seem to hide their solar panel reflections from the
>>> earth, it always have been moments of deeply felt hate seeing
>>> these (?) lines of satellites flying by (following each other
>>> within ~30 seconds), i personally would have shoot them.
>>> I know there are cultures on this world which feel the same.
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> (And i _love_ books, battered or not.)
>>> 
>>> --steffen
>>> |
>>> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
>>> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
>>> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
>>> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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