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There wasn't any close miss. The "close miss" was a press blast operation by a competitor. The two companies were in coordination and because the competitor cou
by mlindner 5y ago
There wasn't any close miss. The "close miss" was a press blast operation by a competitor. The two companies were in coordination and because the competitor couldn't trust SpaceX to avoid their satellite spacex disabled their avoidance intentionally so that the competitor could move their satellite. Then said competitor went on a crazy press tirade about "dangerous starlink" even though SpaceX helped them out. If SpaceX had done nothing Starlink would have successfully avoided the competitor's satellite.
- tullianus 5y agoI've heard OneWeb's constellation ops team (the engineers in charge of coordinating maneuvers with other spacecraft for collision avoidance) threatened to walk out over the crazy press tirade. The craziness was from someone at the top, not from the folks on the ground.
- mlindner 5y agoThat's really interesting, where did you read that?