Trump will probably spring the Space Force into action.

Government, bad things would not continue to happen to him.

Elon showered Trump with about $300M that we know of. Plus he spent untold millions on an aggressive door to door campaign in swing states getting out Republicans to the polls. And then there was all the money Elon spent on PAC ads saturating swing states lying about Harris, saying she will let schools perform sex changes on your kid, and ads saying Ruth Bader Ginsberg agreed with Trump’s position on Roe v. Wade. It was disgusting. And effective. Lies work in America.

I need a satellite service that isn’t Eloon too.

How many thousands of small satellites will this bring the total to? Becoming even more dangerous to be an astronaut.

But then, it has become much more dangerous to be an American, too…

In 2009, modeling by Kessler and collaborators showed the debris environment in LEO had become unstable. We'd reached a point where fragments from future collisions accumulate faster than atmospheric drag can pull them down. That was 16 years ago, long before Elmo, i.e. "12 year old in mom's basement saying...wouldn't it be cool if (fill in - you probably shouldn't do that - idea)" started throwing shit all over the sky. So many things to hate about that bastard, I'm torn as to which is worst.

He's a fucking asshole.

I *knew* someone who worked in thes area and other similar technologies. The Chinese have already demonstrated this and I'm sure the russkis are there also.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_warfare

There's a satellite launching development under way in Scotland that wants to make a virtue of its relatively far north location (Scotland's also a not insignificant player in satellite development and construction). No idea how or whether that applies to the proposals in the OP.

Including Amazon's "Kuyper," which will not be available to Russia and various others. And, if Ukraine wants to use their service, they won't turn it off on them because Putin wants it. All of these systems will be FAR better and faster than Starlink, too.

I don't need it (I don't think) but definitely would like to find a need for it.

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Low earth orbit (LEO) is actually crowded. One collisional cascade, i.e. Kessler syndrome, from simple error or a belligerent act, and we might be back to pre-sat communications for a long while. There's debate as to whether a Kessler event might cut off access to higher orbits beyond LEO, but it certainly would preclude putting anything else in LEO since inevitable collisions would make the debris problem even worse. It would certainly make traveling into and out of space a whole lot more dangerous.

It's hypothesized that for any space faring species, a Kessler effect might be inevitable. A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox, where instead of blowing themselves up with nukes, they trap themselves on their home planet by putting too much crap in orbit X the probability of collisions no matter how careful you are. Interesting school of thought.

put him out of business