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from the the-inconceivable-has-become-commonplace dept.
SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral:
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 more Starlink internet relay satellites on Saturday, boosting the total number launched to date to 895 as the company builds out a planned constellation of thousands designed to provide global high-speed broadband service.
Running two days late because of an on-board camera issue, the Falcon 9's twice-flown first stage thundered to life at 11:31 a.m. EDT, pushing the 229-foot-tall rocket away from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was the California rocket builder's 19th launch so far this year and its 15th Starlink flight.
[...] With Saturday's launch, SpaceX has put 895 Starlinks into orbit, 180 of them — more satellites than any other company owns — in less than three weeks.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 27 2020, @03:41PM
You've got to take into account the size of the thing you're shooting at it. Now, let's do some dirty math. The earth has aprroximately 510 million square km of surface area. Let's be generous and give each satellite 10 meters squared surface area. Going by your example, you would be shooting at something 51,000,000 times smaller than the atom. With something not much bigger than that. Assuming, you're just going for chaos, there's all kinds of stuff you could do to screw things up for everyone. Aiming at and hitting your target, is a vastly different proposition. Even then, just shooting something up there to "cause problems". What would you do, how would you even do it? Why would it make sense? Rockets / Space Science is hard and costs a lot of money.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"