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Lets do the math. We are talking about (at most - including other future companies) roughly 50,000 satellites in LEO, each about the size of a car, and they bu
by yazaddaruvala 6y ago
Lets do the math.
We are talking about (at most - including other future companies) roughly 50,000 satellites in LEO, each about the size of a car, and they burn up in the atmosphere in a few years.
Given LEO is at a higher altitude, the "surface area" at that orbit is larger, but lets pretend its only 510 million km^2 (i.e. Earth's surface area).
If I evenly distributed 50,000 cars across 510 million km^2, you would need to search 10,200 km^2 to find 1 car.
Even 1 satellite per 1 km^2 in LEO would not impede astronomy, and that future requires 500+ million such satellites.
Amazon and SpaceX operating roughly 0.01 million satellites each is inconsequential.