Oh please stop that imbecile from doing more ecological and ideological damage. You have my full support
but, we have to ask ourselves, why *canadian* prairies? what's his endgame here?
@Paulatics @sundogplanets
I suspect exactly zero of these silly "AI data centre" satellites will ever be launched.
Data centres are famously hungry for power and cooling. Satellites are famously difficult to run power supplies out to, and exist in a near total vacuum so there is a shortage of stuff to radiate heat out to. The whole scheme makes no sense at all unless seen as solely a scam to get gullible investors to put money into SpaceX.
2023 study showed that as much as 10% of high atmosphere metal compounds were *already* pollution from space technology… and the challenge in that is that unlike other ozone deleters these molecules don’t get consumed, but instead the same molecule can catalyze an ozone destroying reaction again and again, while remaining in the atmosphere for decades.
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As this pollution will take a few decades to descend to the ozone layer the problem is urgent, because by the time we start to observe significant ozone depletion any solutions or responses will take *more* decades to have any effect, and that’s even assuming that mitigation is possible. The only sensible solution is to stop putting this junk up over our heads in the first place.
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@Paulatics A satellite's orbit is/was defined as a TLE (Two Line Element) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set
One field is a catalog number maintained by NORAD. It is 5 digits as part of the file format. This year, due to increasing number of objects tracked, we reach this limit and people have to start using a new format that has 6 digits (and 4 digit years !).
TLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set
Catalog Number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Catalog_Number
new formats: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.php (much more complex than TLEs)
The request for approval to launch a million satellites is not so much as a request to launch a million satellites as a request for carte blanche for whateved rocket-oriented activities they want to do for the next few decades, without having to ask permission each time.
Apparently they did not give a lot of specific details in their request, that's so they can use the blanket approval for whatever they want.
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Any satellite with a computer and data link (ie, any satellite) can fit the description of (data centre).
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