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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-03-30 19:40:33

"If there are 1 million AI sat minis in operation, then the constellation as a whole would perform 272 million collision risk mitigation manoeuvres per year, which is nearly 9 manoeuvres every second of every day for which the constellation is operating, on average", calculates #OrbitalDataCenters madness: "Across a 15-year licence term, the cumulative total for the constellation would be 4 billion manoeuvres."

@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-03-20 05:24:15

And so now billionaire Jeff Bezos decides that he, too, needs to jump into the #OrbitalDataCenters game and so Blue Origin files with the FCC to launch 52,000 satellites 🤦‍♂️