SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’

Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by rocqua on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:31PM (#28250380)

I imagine starlink has the advantage of being able to coordinate with 50% of satelites sharing their orbit (the starlink satelites) so they should have a lower 'incident per satellite' rate.

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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are g... by Jtsummers on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:32PM (#28250393)

Per the article that 500/week is reduced to only the incidents with non-Starlink satellites. Assuming the article is presenting apples-to-apples, then the 80/week for OneWeb should correspond to that 500/week for Starlink.

Starlink's total with their own satellites as well was 1600.

It's also worth noting that Starlink/SpaceX does coordinate with other satellite operators, it's their responsibility to do so.

I was actually working on an edit when I saw your reply and decided to put it here instead.

EDIT:

Reread a section of the article:

> OneWeb, by comparison, currently has 250 satellites and passes another operators’ satellite 80 times per week.

So yes, I've made an apples-to-apples comparison here. We don't know OneWeb's total incident count from this article alone and I'm insufficiently motivated to track down that statistic.

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