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From the twitter thread: It is very rare to perform collision avoidance manoeuvres with active satellites. The vast majority of ES
by throwaway2048 7y ago
From the twitter thread:
It is very rare to
perform collision
avoidance manoeuvres
with active
satellites. The vast
majority of ESA
avoidance manoeuvres
are the result of
dead satellites or
fragments from
previous collisions.
[ ... ]
As the number of
satellites in orbit
increases, due to
'mega constellations'
such as #Starlink
comprising hundreds
or even thousands of
satellites, today's
'manual' collision
avoidance process
will become
impossible...
- floatingatoll 7y agoThis is unreadable on mobile due to the use of code formatting. https://i.imgur.com/562ORgL.png https://i.imgur.com/562ORgL.png EDIT: Said comment is now one full screen tall due to manual insertion of linewraps, and is very wasteful of space on desktop and landscape layouts: https://i.imgur.com/H15eCXo.png https://i.imgur.com/H15eCXo.png
- pxtail 7y agoIt so weird that there is no incentive to fix many usability shortcomings like this one and too tiny UI elements on mobile etc. - all of that despite multiple complaints over years..
- saagarjha 7y agoIt’s meant for code, where the browser isn’t necessary very good at wrapping lines.
- floatingatoll 7y agoMobile works fine for me and the UI elements as shown honor my text size setting accurately. Using code formatting for non-code results in broken formatting for non-code. This should come as no surprise to anyone. Indents aren’t worth a semantic violation. Use “> ” prefixes like classic email, and optionally italic asterisks if that’s desirable.
- irq 7y agoThere was a post on HN yesterday thanking the operators for never updating the site. While I mostly agree with that sentiment, this code formatting BS is an outlier and very much needs to be addressed. Either take the feature away altogether, or just make it work well on mobile. But this middle ground where HN visitors inadvertently ruin their contributions for mobile users is bad.
- jonsen 7y agoIt is very rare to perform collision avoidance manoeuvres with active satellites. The vast majority of ESA avoidance manoeuvres are the result of dead satellites or fragments from previous collisions. [ ... ] As the number of satellites in orbit increases, due to 'mega constellations' such as #Starlink comprising hundreds or even thousands of satellites, today's 'manual' collision avoidance process will become impossible...