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You will note that the official ESA comments on the matter are that “nobody did anything wrong,” and (to paraphrase) “we need better technology to remove humans
by manicdee 7y ago
You will note that the official ESA comments on the matter are that “nobody did anything wrong,” and (to paraphrase) “we need better technology to remove humans, email and phone calls from the loop”.
For all you know, SpaceX did state to the ESA that their satellite was incapable of performing the required course adjustment. Something along the lines of “our satellite is incapable of adjusting its orbit to accomodate your request.”
As for the author publishing the story before receiving a response from SpaceX, that’s on the author not SpaceX.
- dahdum 7y ago> As for the author publishing the story before receiving a response from SpaceX, that’s on the author not SpaceX. It’s on SpaceX, journalists can’t let companies kill their stories through silence. The story quotes Holger Krag as saying SpaceX replied “they do not plan to take action”. Quite different than “incapable”.
- hgoel 7y agoThey published the story 4 hours after the incident happened. That's nowhere near enough time for SpaceX to respond, as such, it is indeed on the journalist in my opinion. Not only is it unlikely that the author found out immediately as it happened, it's unlikely that SpaceX could get a statement ready in 2 maybe 3 hours (assuming an hour total between author seeing this info and a SpaceX rep seeing his email about it), while also leaving the author time to write the article.
- manicdee 7y agoAnd yet SpaceX did reply to Loren Grush, who has published a story about this ESA announcement, but it’s quite a different story because she wasn’t setting out to smear SpaceX. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20847243/spacex-starlink-satellite-european-space-agency-aeolus-conjunction-space-debris https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20847243/spacex-starlink-s...