SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, in a Jan. 15 tweet, said there were 1,469 satellites active, with 272 moving to operational orbits. SpaceX's current Starlink constellation is authorized for 4,408 satellites, all in orbits at around 550 kilometers.
There are supposedly 4500 satellites in space but only 1500 belong to Elon Musk. A solar flare occurs, randomly knocking out all satellites in a large area -- 40 satellites in total. Somehow all 40 of them belong to Elon Musk. Please tell me how that is supposed to work.
When was this? I thought the Starlink sats came down last week?
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, in a Jan. 15 tweet, said there were 1,469 satellites active, with 272 moving to operational orbits. SpaceX's current Starlink constellation is authorized for 4,408 satellites, all in orbits at around 550 kilometers.
The more you know, etc. Pretty neat
There are supposedly 4500 satellites in space but only 1500 belong to Elon Musk. A solar flare occurs, randomly knocking out all satellites in a large area -- 40 satellites in total. Somehow all 40 of them belong to Elon Musk. Please tell me how that is supposed to work.
They were in a pre-orbit hold, the staff tried to get em out into orbit but the sunfart was too fast.
What exactly is a pre-orbit hold? If I understand right, you're saying they were launching all 40 rockets in the same area at the same time?