damn. at this point its not even about a pretense for progress, just a fetish for a very dirty space
It's essentially a military network (which is why other power sphere want their own) and a way to feed money into spacex
Re:xAI joins SpaceX
by infinitewars on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @11:22AM
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Stop linking this same Wikipedia page if you're not going to expound it with further details or evidence. I'm holding you accountable for following HN guidelines here.
They re-enter and burn up entirely. Old starlinks don't stay in space.
So they pollute the upper atmosphere instead!
Down voting doesn't make that statement any less true…
Re:xAI joins SpaceX
by yencabulator on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:05PM
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They won't if you "put AI satellites into deep space", as the article says.
Starlink yes, at 480 km LEO. But the article says "put AI satellites into deep space". Also if you think about it, LEO orbits have dark periods so not great.
A better orbit might be Sun Synchronous (SSO) which is around 705 km, still not "deep space" but reachable for maintenance or short life deorbit if that's the plan. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/catalog-of-...
And of course there are the LaGrange points which have no reason to deorbit, just keep using the old ones and adding newer.
Average life of starlink satellite is around 4-5 years