After giving in to Putin/Xi’s demands to not provide starlink internet service over Taiwan, DOD officials are growing nervous about trusting Elon’s Space company with our national secrets

  • Phoenixz
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    18 hours ago

    Geo stationary satellites are perfectly bfine for 99.9% of the activities that people do

    LEO satellites are garbage by design. You need hundreds of them, they’ll all burn up within 5 years due to orbital decay, needing an immense amount of rocket launches to refresh them regularly. , They’re adding a shit tonne of garbage to an already stressed LEO with a Kessler syndrome just waiting to happen at this point.

    If what you’re doing really requires realtime and low latency connections them maybe you should look for a better location