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SpaceX should build a satellite picker satellite to collect their dysfunctional Starlink satellites and bring them back on Earth. They could study their vulnera
by Victerius 5y ago
SpaceX should build a satellite picker satellite to collect their dysfunctional Starlink satellites and bring them back on Earth. They could study their vulnerabilities and apply the lessons learned to shield future Starlink satellites against solar storms.
- oxplot 5y agoThey are building that - it’s called Starship and one of the configurations will be a cargo ship with a bay and an arm that can pick stuff up and bring them back.
- nmstoker 5y agoIt is not that the satellites were insufficiently shielded against solar storms, it's that the atmosphere was impacted and thus their tactic of low Earth orbit didn't work at this precise moment.
- HWR_14 5y agoThe press release implies that the issue is known. They entered a safe mode just after launch, and had not yet reached an orbit from which they were able to successfully leave safe mode.
- bagels 5y agoA complete waste of resources. Cheaper just to send more of them up there. They know what caused these to come down.
- mlindner 5y agoYou apparently did not read the article as the solar storm did not in fact knock out any satellites.