News Bezos' Blue Origin announces satellite rival to Musk's Starlink

[garyw]

Article -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0yydwe89jo

Jeff Bezos blue origin is going to launch a bunch of satellites to rival starlink, his amazon company are going to launch a different set of satellites and we already have starlink so how much more crowded will LEO get?

 

[GLS]

An article with a click-bait title: the Starlink rival is Kuiper/Leo, while Terawave doesn't seem to be (small) user-oriented.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014028880231931977

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-origin-introduces-terawave-space-based-network-for-global-connectivity

Jeff Bezos blue origin is going to launch a bunch of satellites to rival starlink, his amazon company are going to launch a different set of satellites and we already have starlink so how much more crowded will LEO get?

Don't forget the Chinese constellations currently being launched:
15000 sats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianfan
13000 sats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guowang


I think it's safe to say that photo astronomy here on the ground has its days numbered.

 

[dennis.krenz]

At least we don't need to pay them yet for launching through their pile of future space debris.

"What a nice spacecraft you have there, would be really unfortunate if something collides of with it."

 

[N_Molson]

Light satellites in LEO are not eternal.

The bus-sized ones in GSO are probably going to stay up for a few eons...