this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2026
321 points (94.0% liked)

Technology

89588 readers
3472 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
321
After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 days ago by eicker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
168 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's a valid point. And yeah, that's totally where they're gonna put them. They're gonna be huge, delicate targets...

I'm generally pro space, I think all the massive advances in space flight in these last couple of decades has been truly amazing. That said, I wish I had a more positive way to spin this, but yeah, that's a serious concern. That's bad.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It won't happen, but if globally we could agree to put a moratorium on large constellations in those orbits until we have more experience with constellations in the really low orbits, that would at least help and give us more time to learn. Without everyone agreeing though, someone else will just be like, MINE and fill it anyway.

Edit: like lets see what happens as starlink becomes even bigger and moves into 10s of thousands, and kupier appears etc before moving up higher.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very low orbits are less of a concern, though. Because if the worst happens, they and the vast majority of their debris will be slowed by atmospheric drag and fall relatively quickly.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thats why I said we should do it in the very low orbits for awhile before going to the 700-1000km range.

800km is already in the hundreds of years range.