sufferingsam
ULTIMATE Member
Just read that there are currently 6241 Starlink satellites in orbit as of July 2024.
The plan is for a constellation of 42,000 satellites (most of them low Earth Orbits) !
The average lifespan of each of this satellite is approx 5 years. If a few thousands of them start faltering / failing and start hitting in-flight aricrafts, Will it count as a doomsday scenario? Imagine the repurcussions, if only a few of those 22,000 aircrafts airborne on any given average day, are brought down by a few failures only !
More likely than a nuclear armageddon.
The plan is for a constellation of 42,000 satellites (most of them low Earth Orbits) !
The average lifespan of each of this satellite is approx 5 years. If a few thousands of them start faltering / failing and start hitting in-flight aricrafts, Will it count as a doomsday scenario? Imagine the repurcussions, if only a few of those 22,000 aircrafts airborne on any given average day, are brought down by a few failures only !
More likely than a nuclear armageddon.























