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Problem is this capability is concentrated in the hands of 1. A private company. 2. Of a single country with inconsistent leaders. I’d be less anxious if Eur
by vachina 3mo ago
Problem is this capability is concentrated in the hands of
1. A private company.
2. Of a single country with inconsistent leaders.
I’d be less anxious if Europe had this capability instead.
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoEurope isn't the sort of place that would develop this capability
- dredmorbius 3mo agoFrance has Eutelsat: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat>. Germany had SES/Astra: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_Astra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_Astra>. The EU as a whole as the Galileo satnav / GPS project: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation_...>. There are numerous other EU satellite comms providers, though most are aimed at commercial/broadcast services. That's a departure point for satellite-phone or satellite-internet, however. Europe can and has developed similar and/or precursor capabilities.
- DoesntMatter22 3mo agoThe EU can technically do it but they won’t. Starlink dwarfs all the services you mentioned. The EU doesn’t even believe in air conditioning much less making a robust satellite network
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoAlso I'm betting he himself has never bought these services. I signed up here on Intelsat.
- wat10000 3mo agoI don't like that either, but nothing's stopping others from following the same path and achieving the same capabilities, other than their own inability or refusal to do what's already been done. It's been over a decade since Falcon 9's first successful landing and we're only recently starting to see similar feats from others.
- SiempreViernes 3mo agoExcept the space in these orbits is finite and a collision at say 520 km requires quick action or the entire fleet in that orbit will eventually be destroyed. https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/305/SDC9-paper305.pdf https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/3...
- llboston 3mo agoYou will be fine. China will have this capability soon.
- po1nt 3mo agoThe reason why Europe doesn't have this is the regulation.