4 ms·
You mean the completely failed Brilliant Pebbles concept? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
by wumpus 4y ago
You mean the completely failed Brilliant Pebbles concept?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
- robonerd 4y ago"Completely failed" as in nobody could possibly launch a constellation that large in the 80s and 90s, yes. The economics of massive constellations have changed, one already has thousands of satellites in orbit. Look up SDA and the National Defense Space Architecture. They're talking about thousands of satellites in LEO. They call it pLEO (proliferated LEO.)
- wumpus 4y agoI've been watching SDA from the start as it's possible it will give us a high bandwidth connection to the South Pole Telescope. Meaning we don't have to wait for summer to fly the data from the EHT annual observation to civilization. As for Brilliant Pebbles, that's one reason it's a total failure, but not the only one.
- Teever 4y agowould you care to share the other reasons thst you feel Brilliant Pebbles is a total failure?