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A "cellphone tower in space" is coming.


https://www.techtimes.com/articles/2974 ... %2Fscience

On a side note, we were camping up on Anderson Mesa and saw the Starlink sat train going east on 2 nights. Those of us who have spent many an hour star gazing, seeing some 20+ Sats in row, brighter than planets going by is a real celestial gamechanger.

Alston_Neal wrote: ↑Oct 13 2023 10:25 am On a side note, we were camping up on Anderson Mesa and saw the Starlink sat train going east on 2 nights. Those of us who have spent many an hour star gazing, seeing some 20+ Sats in row, brighter than planets going by is a real celestial gamechanger.

We watched those on consecutive nights as well, 9/22 and 9/23. It was freaky.

I've never seen the bright train (which must be cool) but I know they soon go higher and get fainter and disperse. So they don't artificially pollute the sky for campers but of course they are a problem for astronomers. Since there doesn't seem to be very loud squawks from those guys, I assume they have good software for removing the streaks from their images. I've been surprised the few times I pointed a telescope at the sky in the last few years that I saw faint satellites go by pretty often.

Still pretty darn bold for one company to pull off full satellite coverage. Elon's leverage over earth and it's inhabitants gets stronger.

Hansenaz wrote:Still pretty darn bold for one company to pull off full satellite coverage. Elon's leverage over earth and it's inhabitants gets stronger.

We just need to talk him into looking at Gila River petros in June with us.