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Thanks. Couldn't agree more. One takeaway I'm getting - many of these other providers are perhaps not technically that competent. I mean, if you don't understa

Thanks. Couldn't agree more. One takeaway I'm getting - many of these other providers are perhaps not technically that competent. I mean, if you don't understand where the risks are, what are you doing with space traffic mgmt? Reality is SpaceX I think has one of the largest operating autonomous traffic mgmt systems already. It's very fast acting. In the fake oneweb "near miss" it just turned out that oneweb had to do manual maneuvers, SpaceX had more time because things were automated, so one web asked spaceX to turn off their systems. Compared to other providers, the starlink constellation is actually generating some the LEAST long lasting space junk up there (which is a lot already).

caconym_ 5y ago
I do get the impression that Starlink is extremely competent at managing their constellation. Ultimately I think the biggest risk is going to come from poor coordination between large operators, as we already got a taste of in that ESA/Starlink snafu a few months (?) back. I'd rather see some kind of distributed consensus framework than a single corporate entity managing it all, though.