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It's more that Golden Dome is taking advantage of the architecture that Starlink has proved to be realistic. It will use separate satellites managed by the Spac

It's more that Golden Dome is taking advantage of the architecture that Starlink has proved to be realistic. It will use separate satellites managed by the Space Development Agency (Tranche 0 consisting of proof of concept stuff launched a while ago

corrino1 1y ago
Total coincidence that the founding members of SpaceX and Mars Society were former Star Wars people.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Advisory_Council_on_National_Space_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Advisory_Council_o...
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  Pretty much everyone over 50 who had experience in constellations in the 2010s worked on Star Wars.
  - corrino1 1y ago
    Sure, that's why satellite constellations were developed. The thing people might not appreciate is that it's still the main driver for these companies to develop them.
    - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > it's still the main driver for these companies to develop them It’s not. Not by a long shot. Like, OneWeb and Planet Labs are not secretly ABM projects. It’s a motivation. One that until recently didn’t pay the bills. But it’s never been the motivation for any commercial constellation so far. (Starshield comes close. But I wouldn’t say ABM is even in the top three military motivations for that project.)
      - corrino1 1y ago
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