Something tells me the data that is coming from satellitemap.space is very accurate especially since the NOAA has a lot of job openings now.
Something tells me the data that is coming from satellitemap.space is very accurate especially since the NOAA has a lot of job openings now.
First of all, I don’t give a shit about Elon, a company and what it accomplishes is more than just one person.
I just want to highlight that the current Starlink fleet consisted of over 5000 satellites as of August, losing 300 isn’t that crazy when you actually consider the constellation itself as a whole.
In any business involving physical hardware, there is an expected rate of failure, and from what I can tell this is completely within the foreseen range. With the plans to expand to over 40000 satellites in the future, even losing 500 units is a little over 1% of the total - that’s a 99% success rate.
Even with the current loss, that’s only around 6% of the total - probably painful, but definitely not the massive “L” that some people are thinking it is.