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Frances Leader's avatar

Interesting!

"On 1 December 2022, the FCC issued an approval for SpaceX to launch the initial 7500 satellites for its second-generation (Gen2) constellation, in three low-Earth-orbit orbital shells, at 525, 530, and 535 km altitude. Overall, SpaceX had requested approval for as many as 29,988 Gen2 satellites, with approximately 10,000 in the 525–535 km altitude shells, plus ~20,000 in 340–360 km shells and nearly 500 in 604–614-km shells. However, the FCC noted that this is not a net increase in approved on-orbit satellites for SpaceX since SpaceX is no longer planning to deploy 7518 V-band satellites at 340 km (210 mi) altitude that had previously been authorized."

So what are Gen2 like?

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/elon-musks-new-second-gen-starlink-satellites-are-too-big-for-current-rockets/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-lobs-second-gen-starlink-satellites-into-orbit/ar-AA180SEY

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/forget-5g-wireless-spacex-and-t-mobile-want-to-offer-zero-g-coverage/

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The Word Herder's avatar

This is so utterly infuriating. I'm SURE these fucking people have "permission" to do this, but from WHOM??????

I didn't vote for this shit. I don't WANT the sky full of these gd machines.

NOW can we please understand what ELON is about??? Stop worshiping the Evil, please, all you Elon Ediots.

Maybe it's time for us to figure out how to take these damn things out of the sky, or at least make them non-functional. Spy cex, indeed. I am OUTRAGED.

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