Spaceflight 🚀Jul 6, 2023
#Forbes 📆 Jun 23, 2023 "#Amazon says half of the 3,236 #satellites 🛰️ will be up above us by 📆 2026" - but who will #launch 🚀 them ? 🤔 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2023/06/23/project-kuiper-how-amazon-will-drape-the-world-in-satellites/

• #BlueOrigin / #NewGlenn : no news / tests yet
• #Ariane 6 is years late (again)
• #ULA's #Vulcan is late, dependent on #BE4 engines
All three will be operative until 2025
7.4%
Microlaunchers
2.9%
SpaceX
36.8%
They need a miracle
52.9%
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Project Kuiper: How Amazon Will Drape The World In Satellites

Amazon is moving into the low-earth orbit satellite business, and those satellites will be coming thick and fast. Here’s what the company has to say about the project.

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Show threadTomcatJul 8, 2023

@spaceflight
I think more than one internet satellite system is bullshit and dangerous for spaceflight and all of us.
And the only one that should be in space, should be provided by an institution like UN or an UNlike more efficient organisation.

What's happening here is a comparison of billionaires dicks.

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@Tomcat #China is also planning a mega constellation. There is such an UN institution as you mentioned : https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/index.html
I personally believe that there is no efficiency without competition (regarding the evolution of technology). The #SpaceDebris issue should certainly be taken serious, the problem is missing international consensus between the major powers.
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Jul 8, 2023 at 8:11pmWeb