Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: Updating my astro 101 lecture on satellites and holy crap... there are 1738 more ...
Updating my astro 101 lecture on satellites and holy crap... there are 1738 more active satellites in orbit today than 1 year ago, and 1690 of those are Starlinks.
62% of all active satellites are now Starlinks, up from 55% 1 year ago.
As long as Starlink doesn't make a single mistake in orbit, it's all fine, I guess. Which is cool, because SpaceX never makes engineering mistakes, like dumping hundreds of pounds of "fully demisable" space debris on other countries... whoopsie.
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