Reply to post: Re: Now, would you please stop proposing to hurl 60,000 Starlinks into low orbit ..

Tesla has made a profit. Repeat, Tesla has made a profit – $143m in fact

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Re: Now, would you please stop proposing to hurl 60,000 Starlinks into low orbit ..

Startlinks are tiny, basically cubesats (I think it's something like 3 cubesat units per Starlink). They're not hulking great multi-ton comms satellites of old. I can see them adding a wrinkle or two, but also the orbits should be well known and published so as to allow them to be ignored.

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