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  • Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite

    From Cryptoengineer@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, February 04, 2026 12:34:54
    Subject: Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

    On 2/2/2026 10:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-stargaze-spacex-aims-to-prevent-orbital- starlink-satellite-collisions

    ?Stargaze is basically a space traffic control platform, and comes about
    a month after a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket came within 200 feet of a Starlink craft.?

    "Stargaze takes real-time data from Starlink satellites, which currently number over 9,600 in orbit. To navigate, the satellites have been
    outfitted with "star trackers," or sensors that continuously survey the surrounding stars to help determine a satellite's location, altitude,
    and orientation."

    ?Those star trackers?which number nearly 30,000?can also detect other orbiting objects, giving SpaceX a way to plot out and predict the
    ?position and velocity?for all detected objects?in near real-time,? it
    wrote in the announcement.?

    Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowadays.ÿ Using an open data program to keep track might be a good idea.

    Lynn


    Musk is now talking about a constellation of (literally) 1 million
    satellites (FCC filing) to put AI compute in space, using solar
    power, in a polar orbit above Earth's terminator.

    It would be very, very visible from the ground.

    I really think we're heading towards a Kessler Syndrome event.

    pt



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  • From Scott Lurndal@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, February 04, 2026 18:41:30
    Subject: Re: Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

    Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:
    On 2/2/2026 10:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    <snip>

    Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowadays.ÿ Using an
    open data program to keep track might be a good idea.

    Lynn


    Musk is now talking about a constellation of (literally) 1 million
    satellites (FCC filing) to put AI compute in space, using solar
    power, in a polar orbit above Earth's terminator.

    https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/


    It would be very, very visible from the ground.

    That's not the only problem with it; consider the
    effect on the composition of the atmosphere when
    all those satellites burn up at end-of-life.

    Not to mention if they do figure out some way to
    radiate the heat from the AI processors into space;
    that's additional observational pollution for the
    astronomers to deal with.


    I really think we're heading towards a Kessler Syndrome event.

    Looks that way, if not via war, via proliferation.


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.11
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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, February 04, 2026 16:13:40
    Subject: Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

    On 2/4/2026 11:34 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
    On 2/2/2026 10:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite
    Collisions?

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-stargaze-spacex-aims-to-prevent-
    orbital- starlink-satellite-collisions

    ?Stargaze is basically a space traffic control platform, and comes
    about a month after a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket came
    within 200 feet of a Starlink craft.?

    "Stargaze takes real-time data from Starlink satellites, which
    currently number over 9,600 in orbit. To navigate, the satellites have
    been outfitted with "star trackers," or sensors that continuously
    survey the surrounding stars to help determine a satellite's location,
    altitude, and orientation."

    ?Those star trackers?which number nearly 30,000?can also detect other
    orbiting objects, giving SpaceX a way to plot out and predict the
    ?position and velocity?for all detected objects?in near real-time,? it
    wrote in the announcement.?

    Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowadays.ÿ Using
    an open data program to keep track might be a good idea.

    Lynn


    Musk is now talking about a constellation of (literally) 1 million
    satellites (FCC filing) to put AI compute in space, using solar
    power, in a polar orbit above Earth's terminator.

    It would be very, very visible from the ground.

    I really think we're heading towards a Kessler Syndrome event.

    pt

    Yup, I reported this here back on Feb 2:

    ?SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites for Orbital Data Center Push?

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

    ?In a late Friday FCC filing, the company mentions deploying a
    staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ranging from 500
    kilometers to 2,000km.?

    ?The plan is shocking in its scope, and would dwarf the existing
    Starlink constellation, which currently spans over 9,600 satellites in
    Earth?s orbit.?

    Oh my goodness ! We will be able to walk from NEO to GEO on satellites.

    Lynn


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