10/01/2024
Another earth scale pattern to be aware of-
SpaceX/Musk is being allowed to pollute space because our government is excited about his hair brained idea of a colony on Mars the space junk devices emit so much light pollution they are obscuring our knowledge and view of space.
How many?
"Musk's initial estimate of the number of satellites soon grew, as he hoped to capture a part of the estimated $1 trillion worldwide internet connectivity market to help achieve his Mars colonization vision. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted SpaceX permission to fly 12,000 Starlink satellites, and the company has filed paperwork with an international regulator to loft up to 30,000 additional spacecraft."
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
" put that into perspective, as of Nov. 7, 2022, only 14,450 satellites have been launched in all of history with 6,800 currently active according to the European Space Agency (ESA)."
Another fun fact many of the old satellites whose orbit will decay sending them to be incinerated and spread around our planet as the re enter the atmosphere several already have-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
" but there were several failure incidents, some of which resulted in radioactive material re-entering the Earth's atmosphere."
Are Starlink satellites a grand innovation or an astronomical menace?
