SpaceX Ilona Mask lost 3 satellite in Earth orbit

The company Ilona Mask SpaceX lost three satellites from 60 launched into Earth orbit. Connection with three satellites is lost. The company does not disclose information about the reasons for the loss of communication with satellites.

Recall that 24 in May 2019, the company SpaceX launched 60 satellites in order to provide the inhabitants of the Earth with broadband Internet access. The satellites were launched into space by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

Currently, Starlink 57 satellites continue to exchange data with the company's earth stations, but the 3 satellite is no longer functioning. 45 satellites from 57 have reached final orbit

According to the company, the original 3 satellite still established communication with earth stations, but then disappeared from the communication channels. It is expected that during the year they passively descend from orbit.

In addition, the company Ilona Mask reported that another 2 satellite will be specifically returned from orbit in order to simulate the recycling process after the end of the service life of the devices.

Recall that Ilon Mask announced the launch of the Starlink global Internet access program in January 2015. According to the program, it is planned to launch 1110-1325 kilometers of 4425 satellites into orbit at altitudes of 335-346 and 7518 satellites to kilometers of 386-XNUMX kilometers. Each satellite weighs XNUMX kilograms.

The company SpaceX argue that the bandwidth of the communication channel will be 1 gigabits per second per user 1 "global web".
So
The satellites of the company Ilona Mask, taken at the end of May 2019, look above the Urals.

Comments

[Wilderness]

Write off for shrinkage - utruska, spoilage by field predators, Americans are rich people.

[The popuas]

Three out of sixty is okay scared when three out of three lose

[Shurik70]

Starlink will not be free.
To access Starlink-Internet, you will first need to purchase a transmitter / receiver transmitter worth several hundred dollars. So that the Chinese do not rivet unlicensed copies, each transceiver will have an individual number and an encryption chip that does not allow other manufacturers to use this number.

Well, since there is an opportunity to block a separate number, it means that sooner or later they will use this opportunity. When enough users join Starlink, there will be a monthly paid "license" for using it.

[Horse, people and soul]

When the Internet appears in every free-standing toilet in the Siberian taiga, polar tundra and sandy desert, from the word "poke the antenna into the sky," the military will not fail to take advantage of this.

Surely Starlink has already reserved some of the opportunities for the military.

The European Union and Russia also gathered to launch similar satellites in an amount from 2000 to 4000. I don’t know about China.

Nearly 12000 Starlink satellites are damn much for true global coverage.

[vasilii]

Starlink was never planned for free. You don’t even need to invent tricky multi-steps for this, it’s enough that the talk about gratuitousness came exclusively from dreamy townsfolk, but they were never announced in official plans.

[Ilya-spb]

But I’m against it, so that all sorts of satellites flew over me from Ilon Mask!)))

Maybe what petition can be signed on the ban?)))

I give my personal permission to irradiate these suspicious satellites with a laser from Peresvet.

[keeper03]

Why do we need so much American trash in orbit? !!

[vasilii]

Well, what a scammer, ah! And as soon as Roscosmos managed to merge the commercial market for him?

[knn54]

The cost of the satellite itself (like Tesla) is cheaper than the cost of launching. They will study, adjust where necessary. For test tests, these are tears.

[Do not care]

Recently I came across an analysis of the cost of the entire project:
The cost of one satellite is $ 300.000
The cost of launching 60 satellites without taking into account the operating costs of the company - from $ 12M to $ 16M depending on the number of reuse stages
The total cost of launching the project is estimated at 10 - 12 billion
This is on the one hand.
On the other hand, in case of successful implementation of the project, SpaceX capitalization is projected to grow in the current 30 to 200 billion dollars.

[afrikanez]

Seen space bag Ilona Mask, full of holes! (Joke of course)

[Mountain shooter]

Again about this ... This is a rather strange idea. More like a grand spy network. No gadget will directly reach satellites. Repeaters need ground or stratospheric ... And then why is this all?

[The popuas]

And how do satellite phones work !?

[Mountain shooter]

Do you know the power of this phone? And why is he like that, and why does he have such an antenna?

[pru-pavel]

The fact is that almost half of the world's population does not have normal Internet even wired (almost all of Africa, partly Asia, in Latin America and Oceania with the Internet is also bad), therefore this market is uncultivated and money can be raised there in billions, only satellites need to be pulled by subscribers as well hand out terminal devices. Americans and British, as the first to understand this, run there in order to manage to occupy a niche and remove multi-billion dollar cream. The main thing now for them is to offer third world subscribers the price that they would be able to pay. And if you're lucky, then in the future the second and first worlds may begin to switch to such an Internet model.

[AVA77]

Hams on a deuce (144 MHz) with a power of 5 watts or more work with the ISS, so this is not a problem. The mask will have Ku and Ka bands (12-18 GHz and 26.5-40 GHz. Alternatively, the subscriber has a small satellite dish and a transmitting head and the transceiver itself.

[HAM]

The most interesting thing is that the simpler the antenna (quarter), the easier it is to make the connection (you don't need to know the direction, though the session is shorter), you need to turn the directed one. At least it was easier for me to communicate with the Mir station this way ... ISS everyone an hour is audible (mostly "digital" work) ...
And if the satellite is in geostationary orbit, then there is no need for special power, a good antenna ...

[AVA77]

I’ll greet Igor Nikolaevich, we will be familiar with .UB3SAQ. And if it's not a secret, at what frequency are you listening?

[Igor V]

Quote: HAM

And if the satellite is in geostationary orbit, then there is no need for special power, a good antenna ...

No one talks about the geostationary orbit in the article, so it’s not very clear how the Internet will be transmitted: from satellite to satellite, or what?

[HAM]

Judging by the heights of the orbits there will be a likeness of radio relay-transmission of signals along the chain, and the whispered one to the subscriber to the ground.

[abrakadabre]

The fact is that almost half of the world's population does not have normal Internet even wired (almost all of Africa, partly Asia, in Latin America and Oceania with the Internet is also bad), therefore this market is uncultivated and money can be raised there in billions

And what is the solvency of this half of humanity?

[donavi49]

Well, Rogozin helps competitors to Mask from OneWeb. Cheese Bor - for who first raises the global network. He will collect the cream. Musk will display on his own. OneVeb bought out in general all carriers on the market, even those that still do not fly (Arian6 and LauncherOne).

[slipped]

Quote: donavi49

Well, Rogozin helps competitors to Mask from OneWeb.

In addition, Rogozin helped to fully deploy the O3b space Internet network

[donavi49]

Well, SES has some special tasks. They do not set a goal to bring cheap Internet to every African, Asian, Venezuelan (to make it easier to stream the revolution), Siberian, etc. house.

OneWeb and Musk set global goals with an audience reach across the globe.

[slipped]

Quote: donavi49

Well, SES has some special tasks. They do not set a goal to bring cheap Internet to every African, Asian, Venezuelan (to make it easier to stream the revolution), Siberian, etc. house.

OneWeb and Musk set global goals with an audience reach across the globe.

And in that and in that case, "cheap Internet" is relative and is obtained only with the installation of special equipment.

By the way, the glonass-M satellite is on the splash photo, not Starlink's satellite.

[slipped]

Quote: donavi49

OneWeb and Musk set global goals with an audience reach across the globe.

By the way, the acronym O3b stands for "Other 3 billion" , which directly relates to the world's population, where broadband Internet is currently unavailable.

[Professor]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

No gadget to satellites directly will not finish.

A special home modem will finish off, and then as in the "good old days".

[210ox]

I think that 5% loss for them does not mean anything. By the way, how many satellites have we lost when launched by Protons in the last five years?

[slipped]

Quote: 210ox

I think that 5% loss for them does not mean anything. By the way, how many satellites have we lost when launched by Protons in the last five years?

One satellite. May 16, 2015 Mexsat-1 satellite. All subsequent 15 launches were successful.

[210ox]

From 2010 to 2015, we lost 11 of ours and one foreign. As a result, by the current year, the Proton launch program has come to naught.

[slipped]

Quote: 210ox

From 2010 to 2015, we lost 11 of ours and one foreign. As a result, by the current year, the Proton launch program has come to naught.

The question was about the last five years, right? As a result, by the current year, the Protons launch program is being carried out as soon as the payload is ready for them. This year there has already been one Proton launch, in the next three months there will be three more, including a commercial one, with two satellites at once:

[SERGEY SERGEEVICS]

The amount of money that they receive from the Internet is not a big loss, in a couple of months they will justify these losses.

[Well done]

Again, the ubiquitous Russians are to blame. "Peresvet" was tested. Iran was there too, and the Chinese are rubbing their palms.

[silverwolf88]

no one is safe from such cases ... the technique is complicated ... the tougher the process control (for example, on the assembly - one reads the instruction, the second performs the operation ... the third controls the completeness and correctness of execution) it is better ... there is no panacea ...

[bmv04636]

the question is how much they will really earn, and will not turn out to be junk in orbit.

[NF68]

Someone loses, and then "finds"?

[voyaka uh]

Only 3 out of 60? I assumed that the percentage of "marriage" would be much higher.
Another thing is more interesting. Their superheavy was recently launched into high orbit by NASA's unique "sailboat".
Which should fly only from the "solar wind". Like Arthur Clarke.
But first, the sail has to open from a small "suitcase" into a huge "sunflower flower".

[Muvka]

Quote: voyaka uh

Only 3 out of 60? I assumed that the percentage of "marriage" would be much higher.

And why would this marriage be?

[Blackmokona]

Satellites are super cheap, without space electronics and other things. All 60 satellites are 10 times cheaper than a conventional geostationary communications satellite

[Mestny]

Why do you think communications satellites are so expensive?
It's simple - providing parameters for 10 years is expensive. This is a power source, electronics, fuel on board.
From this follows a simple conclusion - 60 satellites are 10 times cheaper than one will work at least 60 times worse. Small resource, low reliability.
Such characteristics are derived from declared value.
Out of 60 - 3 are faulty, that is 5%. In total, it is planned to launch about 14000 satellites, which with such reliability will amount to about 700 simultaneously faulty satellites.
And this is not even taking into account that "only 47 of them have reached the calculated orbit so far."
But your answer, of course, will be different - "we are all deceived, in fact, satellites are cheapеin, and Elon Musk opened our eyes. "

[Blackmokona]

So the claimed life of Starlink satellites is only 5 years, against 15+ years at geostationary stations. They will descend from orbit themselves because of the selected orbit which is unstable.
The price is also strongly affected by seriality, GSO satellites are made one by one to order, while the Mask has a conveyor of the same type of satellites

[donavi49]

It is strange that even about the slip of the center step past the platform at the launch of Hevik 25 on June, the news was not made here.

By the way, Electron is gaining momentum. Yesterday another flew. Another launch and they will repeat last year.

By the end of the year, they plan to make the first launch in the United States, the spaceport is being built intensively.

[voyaka uh]

"about the miss of the center stage past the platform at the launch of Khevik on June 25, the news was not made here" ////
----
This is because the launch was successful. Musk did not catch the center step, but for the first time they caught the half of the head fairing with a net.
After 4 failures.

[bald]

Two out of 60 - a good result. And the video is cool - they go beautifully - in gander.

[kunstkammer]

Quote: pru-pavel

Africa, partly Asia, in Latin America and Oceania

Tahiti ... Tahiti ... the budget feeds us well in Russia too.

[viktor_ui]

You can only wish for further development. I. Musk DOES.

[Monar]

Yes, good. 3 fleas did not work.
But here's an ambush. Let these companions penny stand. So how many Masks of garbage will be brought into orbit?

[Mestny]

So much so that after 100 years we will rake.

[Blackmokona]

From the orbits into which he launches them, they themselves will fall promptly. To maintain satellites in these orbits, regular engine starts are required.

[Zdishek]

In fact, we have launched several thousand shells into orbit. When commanding from the ground, they, having on board a minimal engine, create a dense sphere that can destroy ANY space object that is not needed. Why ours are silent is not clear. Again they were threatened with freezing personal accounts in foreign banks?

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Horse, lyudovѣd and soulѣlyub

Nearly 12000 Starlink satellites are damn much for true global coverage.

In an orbit of 600 km, the satellite will hang for half a year. The amount for full coverage by the Internet is such that to restore the decreasing size of the group, the Mask will have to put the production of its missiles on stream.

[Blackmokona]

So he already put on stream

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: vasilii

Well, what a scammer, ah! And as soon as Roscosmos managed to merge the commercial market for him?

Do not worry. Without a license issued by Roskomnadzor, you won’t buy a transceiver from Mask, and without it, you will use the well-known Rostelecom line.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: viktor_ui

You can only wish for further development. I. Musk DOES.

https://bezgin.su/articles/11-analitika-i-prognozy/63040-seans-finansovoy-magii-ot-ilona-s-posledujushhim-razoblacheniem


https://bezgin.su/articles/151-tekhnologii-i-po/66437-skazka-pro-teslu-i-vislu

He robs his customers and gullible gullibles.

[Shahno]

Yes, really. We all rob our customers, and especially suckers.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Shahno

Yes, really. We all rob our customers, and especially suckers.

To jail you. For recognition, parole.

[Shahno]

Quote: wkd dvk

Quote: Shahno

Yes, really. We all rob our customers, and especially suckers.

To jail you. For recognition, parole.

Well, you are so. I decided to visit Samara. And you are right away.

[Kelwin]

I don’t know how anyone, but I’m only for this net, because the eta has completely gone out of control.

[Mestny]

Don’t worry, soon. It’s not long to endure. The doctor will come in the morning

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: AVA77

Hams on a deuce (144 MHz) with a power of 5 watts or more work with the ISS, so this is not a problem. The mask will have Ku and Ka bands (12-18 GHz and 26.5-40 GHz. Alternatively, the subscriber has a small satellite dish and a transmitting head and the transceiver itself.

Make this outfit yourself. Buy from Mask? Unless, if Roskomnadzor permits you. If Musk will license his connection with Roskomnadzor, then you will receive permission. However, I doubt it very much. Will you contact the smugglers? And then how do you write in the Mask network?

[Kelwin]

It is believed that no Roskomnadzor will not be able to interfere with the supply of receivers. Perhaps at first they will create inconvenience, but in the end they will get scammed with both a telegram and a torrent. And with Ali, the necessary piece of iron will perfectly come.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: BlackMokona

So he already put on stream

Him to our stream, flowing in Soviet times, as to Mongolia in Karachik.


It was not they who rushed off. That we stopped.

[Vasily Ponomarev]

here it is worth considering that the USSR had to launch satellites much more often due to the fact that Soviet satellites lived in orbit less than American ones, and therefore had to launch so many missiles

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: KelWin

It is believed that no Roskomnadzor will not be able to interfere with the supply of receivers. Perhaps at first they will create inconvenience, but in the end they will get scammed with both a telegram and a torrent. And with Ali, the necessary piece of iron will perfectly come.

In any business, there is a crane that can be shut off. You can try to catch each of hundreds of millions. And you can block financial flows. This is done in one or two places. And at the same time for everyone. I do not think that Musk will give the Internet for free.
Distinguish the structure, methods of signal delivery to the consumer from Telegrams (channels traditional for the Internet) and the Mask from satellites. If instrumental in one case is difficult, then in the other it is two fingers.

[Reptiloid]

I wonder if the Earth (except the Moon) has NATURAL satellites of asteroid size, with a super low albedo? I saw on the network how such a satellite passed on the background of the moon ...

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Vasily Ponomarev

here it is worth considering that the USSR had to launch satellites much more often due to the fact that Soviet satellites lived in orbit less than American ones, and therefore had to launch so many missiles

That’s not why. The satellite’s life in orbit depends on its altitude. At an altitude of 150-200 km, it does not spin much there. But photos taken low flying orders of magnitude better than, for example, geostationary. Our photos from Space were always better than American ones. And therefore also. But, most importantly, we shot on film 900 mm wide. They are on film and on electronic matrices. They received electronic photographs almost instantly, and we dropped the film in capsules only at points convenient for us. The consumption of the film made us drive there more often.
The most important detail of the satellite was the lens. The 6-meter construction descended from orbit, because its price was incredible.

[Vasily Ponomarev]

the well-known fact that Soviet satellites lived less