Despite expert warnings and opposition, the Federal Communication
Commission (FCC) has approved tens of thousands of satellites, loons, and other space craft to be launched into the sky and space to blast WiFi and 5G back down at us (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 7).
On Wednesday, SpaceX launched 60 more. Elon Musk promises that next month’s batch will have “sun shades” to reduce their brightness.
From DailyMail UK:
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
has said his company is ‘fixing’ the brightness of his ultra-bright
constellation of satellites, which are disrupting the night sky for
astronomers.Stargazers have been puzzled by the unusual brightness of Musk’s
satellite constellation, called Starlink, which aims to provide
satellite internet access.The brightness of the constellation is due to the angle of the solar
panels as the satellites rise to orbit altitude, Musk explained.
[…]The continued launches shows Musk is not letting the
pandemic hamper his company’s plans of creating an internet broadband
constellation in low orbit.
At least 400 satellites are needed for SpaceX to start introducing
minimal internet coverage, Musk has said, and at least 800 are necessary
for moderate coverage.The firm aims to have more than 1,000 satellites in orbit by the end
of the year and has also been approved by the FCC to launch over 12,000
in total.However, European Southern Observatory (ESO) found that satellite
mega-constellations such as Starlink will ‘severely’ affect between 30
and 50 percent of observations taken by the Rubin Observatory under
construction in Chile.
The FCC is supposed to protect the public from the telecom industry
but, as the article concludes, the FCC appears enamored with a
space-based internet beaming the planet:
Musk compared the project to ‘rebuilding the internet in
space’, as it would reduce reliance on the existing network of undersea
fibre-optic cables which criss-cross the planet.In the US, the FCC welcomed the scheme as a way to provide internet connections to more people.
The FCC was labelled a “Captured Agency” before Trump was elected and they have become ridiculously more dangerous since then (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23).
By B.N. Frank
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