The Growing Risk of Space Debris: How Satellite Proliferation Is Polluting Low-Earth Orbit

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CircleID - Doug Dawson 11june2025. Low-orbit space is growing increasingly crowded. Starlink has over 7,100 satellites in orbit and has plans to grow to 30,000. Project Kuiper has plans for a constellation of 3,232 satellites. One Web’s first-generation constellation has 648 satellites, with plans to grow to over 6,300 satellites. The Thousand Sails (Qianfan) constellation … Continue reading The Growing Risk of Space Debris: How Satellite Proliferation Is Polluting Low-Earth Orbit

Putting the Earth Inside a High Speed Computer

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(Extracts below from Arthur Firstenberg's newsletter) PUTTING THE EARTH INSIDE A HIGH SPEED COMPUTER Arthur Firstenberg 03 June 2020 ON MAY 26, SPACEX FILED an application with the Federal Communications Commission for 30,000 “next-generation” (“Gen2”) satellites. They will orbit at between 328 km (203 miles) and 614 km (380 miles) in altitude. They will use … Continue reading Putting the Earth Inside a High Speed Computer