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Re:The US military launched 500M needles into space (2019) by robonerd on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:13PM (#31590505)
"Completely failed" as in nobody could possibly launch a constellation that large in the 80s and 90s, yes. The economics of massive constellations have changed, one already has thousands of satellites in orbit.

Look up SDA and the National Defense Space Architecture. They're talking about thousands of satellites in LEO. They call it pLEO (proliferated LEO.)

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Re:The US military launched 500M needles into space (2019) by wumpus on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:15AM (#31591276)
I've been watching SDA from the start as it's possible it will give us a high bandwidth connection to the South Pole Telescope. Meaning we don't have to wait for summer to fly the data from the EHT annual observation to civilization.

As for Brilliant Pebbles, that's one reason it's a total failure, but not the only one.

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Re:The US military launched 500M needles into space (2019) by Teever on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:49AM (#31592487)
would you care to share the other reasons thst you feel Brilliant Pebbles is a total failure?
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