SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals radical Starlink redesign for 60 satellite launch

Teslarati ^ | 5/11/19 | Eric Ralph

[Moonman62]

The launch is scheduled for this Wednesday.

[Moonman62]

[dp0622]

This is great but when are they going to get to Uranus?

(Immature FReeper comment now added. Intelligent conversation can proceed)

[seowulf]

Skynet.

[BradyLS]

That’s a lot of eggs in one basket.

[null and void]

Thanks. Someone had to say it...

[null and void]

5 dozen.

[rktman]

12,000. Well that should provide enough solar blockage to reverse glow-bull discombobulation and prevent CLIMAGEDDON. 👹🚀

[dp0622]

“I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.”

And I was just the guy to do it! :)

[Vermont Lt]

I know the sky is big, but how much crap can we put up there before they all start “pinballing” around.

[PIF]

"According to Musk, SpaceX has actually entirely gotten rid of a satellite-dispenser middle-man, instead relying on the structure of the satellites themselves to act as their own launch adapters and deployment mechanisms."'

Starlink is a satellite constellation development project underway by ... SpaceX, to develop a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and requisite customer ground transceivers to implement a new space-based Internet communication system. SpaceX also plans to sell satellites that use a satellite bus that may be used for military, scientific or exploratory purposes.

[Darteaus94025]

Did you detect Klingons?

[Moonman62]

SpaceX also plans to sell satellites that use a satellite bus that may be used for military, scientific or exploratory purposes.

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Satellites are much more profitable than rockets.

[jdsteel]

I am a big fan of privatized space.

Unfortunately I am not a big fan of Elon Musk, who has a long history of over promising and under delivering with Tesla.

[Moonman62]

Yet Tesla is the leading electric car company. When Musk’s goals aren’t met he’s still far ahead of anybody else.

He’s done the same with SpaceX.

[butlerweave]

Is that the Fairing they fished out of the ocean ?

[Moonman62]

Followers of SpaceX don’t think there’s been enough time to refurbish them. Good question, though.

[Moonman62]

However, this is the fourth flight of the first stage, a new record.

[CtBigPat]

Primary design contractor:

[jmcenanly]

Will this be able to get around the firewalls that many nations have put in to limit the information that their citizens can access? If so, it might do for the current crop of totalitarians what the tax machine did to the Warsaw Pact 30 years ago.