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> SpaceX deploys its satellites into these lower obits Unintentional pun on "orbits", perhaps? It's incredible to me that launching satellites is so easy now
by nneonneo 5y ago
> SpaceX deploys its satellites into these lower obits
Unintentional pun on "orbits", perhaps?
It's incredible to me that launching satellites is so easy now that a failure of 40 satellites can be tolerated. On the bright side, I guess this gave SpaceX a chance to talk about their debris-limiting strategy!
- geocrasher 5y agoI wonder who'll write their orbituary.
- Victerius 5y agoNew York Times Capital City, Earth – Satellite Starlink XB-4590 has shut down yesterday, February 8, 2132, following a geomagnetic storm that irreparably crippled its circuits. XB-4590 was 5 months old. It is survived by the 32,008 other active Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk IV declined to comment for this article.
- jrockway 5y agoMy main takeaway here is that Elon Musk's grandson, "∑∫π²∞", decided he was tired of the escalating unicode name game and just named his kid Elon Musk IV.
- medstrom 5y agoIt would be Elon IV Musk ... if they cared to follow the norm.
- hnbad 5y agoI think you misread that. Elon Musk IV is the given name. Her full name is Elon Musk IV Musk. The same way Mario's and Luigi's full names are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. Her friends call her IV.
- ascar 5y ago> ∑∫π²∞ This reads: Sigma Integral Pi-Squared Infinitiy. There are worse names ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- cies 5y ago> There are worse names The last name: Musk. And he tries to clean it. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Elon-Musks-family-got-their-wealth-from-apartheid-emerald-mining/answer/Otto-Maddox-8 https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Elon-Musks-family-got-...
- tim333 5y agoDunno - quote from Musk >‘My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done. It’s so terrible, you can’t believe it.’ Doesn't really sound like he's trying to say all the Musks were wonderful.
- cies 5y agoIn Rolling Stone? Wow. Did not know that.
- ineedasername 5y agoA high altitude aircraft will take a sample of the atmosphere where XB-4590 burned up on reentry so that it's remains may be interred at the local e-waste processing facility.
- nneonneo 5y agoThis typo has now been fixed, of course, but if you want a teensy bit of amusement you can always see the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220209040744/https://www.spacex.com/updates/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220209040744/https://www.space...
- Fatnino 5y agoAny loss of a mass production sat can be tolerated. Or at least tolerated better than the loss of a bespoke one off sat. So the loss of a batch of starlink or GPS or glonass is not a tragedy like the loss of Webb would have been.
- cryptonector 5y agoIt's not the mass production that's the issue. It's the mass launch.