Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by bryanlarsen on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:53PM
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There's probably more than 5 orders of magnitude difference between throwing an apple core into the woods and a city's worth of sewage, but both are organic waste. I think the analogy is fairly sound.
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Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by haimez on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:39PM
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While true, there’s also an asymmetry here in that a city can expand their landfill or sewer system capacity- orbital space has a fixed capacity
Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by mlindner on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:37AM
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That's not really true. The "capacity" such as it is is defined by current technological ability to track the assets and respond to changes quickly. There's a whole ton of work to be done there as satellite operators only update their position every few days usually. It should be at least daily and ideally hourly or even by the minute.
Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by bryanlarsen on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:14PM
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WTF? Space is incomprehendibly big. The number of potential landfill locations are very limited.
Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by saghm on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:12AM
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Isn't this thread discussing a very specific orbital range? The 450k-800k range is big, but I'm not sure I'd classify it as "incomprehensibly big".
Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by bryanlarsen on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:19AM
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Anything orders of magnitude larger than the Pacific Ocean deserves that title IMO.
Re:FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
by MobiusHorizons on Saturday October 01, 2022 @01:25AM
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It’s at least bigger than the surface of the earth :)