Geplante Satelliten-Megakonstellationen würden den Nachthimmel, wie wir ihn kennen, verändern
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/
Geplante Satelliten-Megakonstellationen würden den Nachthimmel, wie wir ihn kennen, verändern
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/
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For thousands of years, the night sky belonged to everyone equally. Soon it might belong to whoever owns the most satellites.
Mark my words. Trillionaires will fill the night sky with advertisements.
It was always going to happen.
Space is getting too crowded. This period of spaceflight will not be fondly remembered in the future, assuming there will be spaceflight or humans in the future.
You can already notice the changes now. I see both satellites orbiting and satellites burning up all the time now. When I was a kid seeing a satellite pass by was somewhat uncommon and a rare occurrence. Now, i would be more suprised if I spent an hour out at night and didn’t spot one than if I did.
I’ve always preferred the (https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization) Low Earth Orbit Labs visualization—I figure we have a ton of tiny stuff just out of the visible range that we might not notice.
„When deep space exploration ramps up,
it will be corporations that name everything.
The IBM Stellar Sphere.
The Philip Morris Galaxy.
Planet Starbucks.“
— Jack’s utter lack of surprise
TIL about [reflectorbital.com](https://www.reflectorbital.com/)
Sounds like bad sci-fi; apparently it’s real.
Does anyone care about the Kessler Syndrome anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
It already has unfortunately. I genuinely haven’t been able to look at a clear night sky without seeing a satellite for idk, at least 4-5 years now?
My money is on kessler syndrome