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Amazon network to rival Starlink gets launch deadline

A United Launch Alliance rocket lofted 29 satellites for Amazon, paving the way for the start of the company’s broadband service later this year in a challenge to SpaceX’s dominant Starlink network.

The Atlas V rocket carrying the latest batch of Amazon Leo satellites took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:30 a.m. local time on Thursday.

[Bloomberg]
 
Maybe we can get Starlink type service from Amazon in South Africa?!!
 
When you imagine Earth from Space....
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And how it really looks now....

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and to match Starlink Amazon needs to launch about 9600 more satellites into space.
 
Corelli said:
When you imagine Earth from Space....
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And how it really looks now....

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and to match Starlink Amazon needs to launch about 9600 more satellites into space.
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So according to the scale of your 2nd pic, the satellites are the size of small countries?

... Are you intentionally obtuse or were you just born that way? You know that space is mindbogglingly large, right? You know that the earth is massive, right? These satellites are measured in meters....
 
Sopbeen said:
So according to the scale of your 2nd pic, the satellites are the size of small countries?

... Are you intentionally obtuse or were you just born that way? You know that space is mindbogglingly large, right? You know that the earth is massive, right? These satellites are measured in meters....
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Hyperbole - Wikipedia

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Sopbeen said:
So according to the scale of your 2nd pic, the satellites are the size of small countries?

... Are you intentionally obtuse or were you just born that way? You know that space is mindbogglingly large, right? You know that the earth is massive, right? These satellites are measured in meters....
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You know that the debris up there is already a major problem, right? The ISS spends the bulk of its delta-v dodging junk on a near constant basis.

Finding clean launch tracks is becoming a headache as well.

But sure, let's keep tossing more junk up there. That will work out well.

Typical consumerist attitude. There's always plenty until there is none then it's all shocked face and "how could we have known?!"
 
rustypup said:
You know that the debris up there is already a major problem, right? The ISS spends the bulk of its delta-v dodging junk on a near constant basis.

Finding clean launch tracks is becoming a headache as well.

But sure, let's keep tossing more junk up there. That will work out well.

Typical consumerist attitude. There's always plenty until there is none then it's all shocked face and "how could we have known?!"
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And yet we don't have satellites smashing into each other on a daily basis and falling out of the sky...
 
SauRoNZA said:
we don't have satellites smashing into each other on a daily basis and falling out of the sky.
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Your argument is you don't see it or aren't aware of it so it can't be happening?

Really?

Collisions happen all the time. De-orbits happen every day. Maybe ask ESA for their latest report?
 
rustypup said:
Your argument is you don't see it or aren't aware of it so it can't be happening?

Really?

Collisions happen all the time. De-orbits happen every day. Maybe ask ESA for their latest report?
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All the time eh? There have only been a couple of hundred since 1961. So it's maybe like 5 a year on average. I think we have more plane crashes than that.

De-orbits are an entirely different thing.
 
rustypup said:
Collisions happen all the time.
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lol what?

Satellite collision - Wikipedia

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"Large collision frequency: Roughly once every 5–10 years for significant events, per analyses. On average, about one satellite destroyed per year by collision or related debris (mostly small impacts)." - https://aerospace.org/article/space-debris-101

Sooooo, hardly "all the time" if you consider 1 satellite being destroyed vs the amount being launched every year.

rustypup said:
De-orbits happen every day.
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yes, that's how you prevent more collisions from happening, you burn up the trash...

The irony here is that even if something really strange happened and all the Starlink/LEO sats got destroyed/destroyed each other... the debris would de-orbit naturally within a few years. Thats one of the great things about leo sats, even if they malfunction, they de-orbit.
 
Sopbeen said:
Large collision frequency
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Satttelites and the ISS are under constant bombardment by garbage up there. If your measure is "it has to reach a specific weifght to be of interest" then sure... almost never.
 
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