Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched more than fifty mini-satellites for Starlink

SpaceX, the founder and chief engineer of which is the American entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched 54 mini-satellites into low Earth orbit for the Starlink Internet network.

The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket took place from launch pad 39-A at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 16:32 local time (00:32 Moscow time Sunday). According to the company's management, the deployment of all 54 satellites was successful.

It should be noted that Starlink is a global satellite system project launched by the American company SpaceX in order to provide the inhabitants of the Earth with high-speed broadband satellite Internet access in any corner of the planet. To deploy this network, devices weighing 260 kg are used. In the long term, the company plans to launch 11 satellites, and $10 billion is earmarked for this purpose. The speed of broadband Internet will reach 1 gigabit per second, which is comparable in scale to a 5G network.

Recall that in the last 3 years alone, SpaceX has already managed to launch more than 3 thousand Starlink satellites into orbit. Today the company acts as the largest satellite communications operator in the world. The Internet of the Starlink global satellite system is successfully used in 41 countries, extending not only to the Americas, but also to Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. The broadband Internet is actively used by the American and Ukrainian military. Moreover, Musk has repeatedly demanded that the Pentagon pay for the provision of such opportunities to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the company cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the Ukrainian debt indefinitely.

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[YOUR]

Send your satellite into these orbits, with a net and a bucket of nuts. Let them fly.

[28st region]

There was such a proposal for the fight against satellites. The Americans and we developed a metal net that was fired by a satellite at the edges of the weighting balls, when meeting with an enemy satellite, it tore it apart, or there were just such proposals to create garbage barriers from "nuts", figuratively speaking.
Now there is no war, and we have nothing to do with what Musk’s satellites will run into.

[Fizik13]

Quote: YOUR

Send your satellite into these orbits, with a net and a bucket of nuts. Let them fly.

Nuts separate from the bucket? Or is the bucket separate from the nuts?

[YOUR]

Doesn't matter. The main thing is that on the trajectory of the movement of Elon Musk's satellites there should be

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

In Russia, tests of the Borshchevik mobile complex, designed to detect Starlink terminals, are being completed. It was developed by the private company Sestroretsk Arms Plant. The Borshchevik mobile direction-finding complex can detect the location of Starlink terminals at a distance of up to 10 kilometers with an accuracy of 60 meters. We are waiting for: "Borgshchiv" vs "Starlink"

[krex pax]

Something I do not see much achievement in this. So we found the terminal and how can we suppress it? 60 meters is a very large spread. At the first artillery attack, they will turn it off and change their position. And the artillery still needs to shoot, but they don’t hit right away.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: krex pax

60 meters is a very large spread.

If you work in conjunction with the Grad, then it's fine. It is more important here that the distance of 10 km is a maximum range of 8 km from the front line, and the detection time is 15 minutes, the first is small, the second is a lot.
But a start has been made.

[krex pax]

I specifically went online to look about starlink. In short, this is a small satellite dish antenna and Wi-Fi routers included. Logically, this antenna cannot stand on the front line. It is in the trenches that there will be routers connected to the tablets. Antennas can distribute data to a large number of routers. Everything costs a penny. Even if the plate is damaged, a new one is put in. Can be placed in any attic or on any tree. Even if they are detected with an approach of + - 60 m, it is almost impossible to destroy. 10 km detection range is also clearly insufficient

[APASUS]

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are slowly dragging Musk into credit bondage. He has a lot of money

[Boniface]

again threw a bunch of "garbage"

[skeptick2]

Quote: Boniface

again threw a bunch of "garbage"

You take an interest in the effectiveness of this "garbage" with our military. They have a lot to say about this topic.

[Boniface]

Testing of the Borshchevik mobile complex, designed to detect Starlink terminals, is nearing completion.
The mobile direction finding complex will be able to detect the location of terminals at a distance of up to 10 kilometers with an accuracy of up to 60 meters

[skeptick2]

We can make machines for detection and destruction.
Create is even a semblance of Starlink able?
About the "Sphere" is not necessary. I am not only up to date, but in the subject even more than this course.

[Vrotkompot]

I wonder how you need to destroy the terminal, knowing that you will be mistaken by at least + -60 meters? ))) FAB3000 aerial bomb? )))

[Blackmokona]

Quote from Vrotkompot

I wonder how you need to destroy the terminal, knowing that you will be mistaken by at least + -60 meters? ))) FAB3000 aerial bomb? )))

Considering that Musk, even during the delivery of the first batch, said that the plate should be moved away from the military forces, the exchange would be very unprofitable. One FAB3000 costs much more than a plate, and if you also take into account the departure of the aircraft and other things, it becomes completely unprofitable.

[Ilgizl]

to create something new, you need to change your thinking and a lot of things, don’t you understand yourself.

[skeptick2]

Yeah...
According 36 hours three times launching a Falcon 9 into space with a total of 110 spacecraft into orbit is awesome. Spaces really have no equal.

[Pulkovo1942]

Spaces really have no equal.

Rocket lab in the future may try to lick the heel.

[Infinity]

It was also the 58th Falcon 9 launch this year, and the 192nd in Falcon 2019 history. The Falcon Heavy was also launched, for the first time since XNUMX. There could have been two, but the launch of the AMS Psyche and two Janus probes was postponed along with it.

[Vrotkompot]

But how Rogozhin laughed at them))) and as a result, Musk continues to launch satellites, and this one runs in armor)

[voyaka uh]

SpaceX had another record: one of the first stages flew with cargo into space
15 times!
On the same engines, without replacement.
An "end" has been put to the dispute about the single-use and reusability of commercial missiles.

[I dare to_notice_]

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched more than fifty mini-satellites for Starlink
This is not good.
Totally.

[skeptick2]

Quote: I dare_notice_

This is not good.
Totally.

Output?
It's in my above comments. Maybe it is necessary to work not on the creation of technologies and machines for destruction, but on creation? After all, catching up will always be behind the one in front.

[Myths]

Something not very noticeable is the creation from the United States. Everything that is created is dual-use.

[skeptick2]

Quote from Mitos

Everything that is created is dual-use

Right. Especially in space.
But nevertheless, there are civilian Starlink terminals, they exist. And Russia does not even have their likeness. That's what it's about.
But in the future, broadcasting the Internet from space directly to smartphones. Is anyone here thinking about this?

[Myths]

What for? earlier: we will buy everything. And now: well, it was necessary ... and starlink is not a civilian purpose at all, although marketing says otherwise. When it is necessary to cut the Internet that is not pleasing, and it does not matter if you are a partner or not.

[voyaka uh]

Wow - "minisatellites"!
Each weighs 260 kg, and is larger than a solid kitchen table.
And with deployed batteries - a surface area of ​​​​more than 25 m2

[ALARI]

The main thing is that they make these satellites in a conveyor way. This means that reliability and simplicity of design are very high.

[voyaka uh]

There are many interesting additions.
Self-diagnosis. If a satellite says "I'm going to break down soon", then it can de-orbit itself with a small engine. Operatively.

[krex pax]

In the satellite industry, we are hopelessly behind. And this is intelligence, target designation, communications. Just before this news, I read an article that 70 percent of our launched satellites stop working. And we launch them one by one. And at the moment we have only 12 functioning reconnaissance satellites. How sad this is.

[skeptick2]

Quote: Nastia Makarova

COMPARE US MILITARY SPACE BUDGET AND RUSSIAN BUDGET

Compare the number of nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia.
And for some reason, with such a huge military (and not only) budget, the United States does not seek to achieve huge superiority in these same warheads.
Maybe we're looking in the wrong direction? And don't we do it?

[krex pax]

And what about the budget. Musk is private. We will never have such private traders. The system will not miss.

[Nastia makarova]

a private trader who sits on the US military budget

[flyer]

Space belongs to the romantics, but if we, in a country that has given the world so much knowledge in the field of space exploration, no longer have Tsiolkovsky and Korolev, then the heroes must have really died out.

[nickname7]

Today the company acts as the largest satellite communications operator in the world.

Another company, or maybe even a corporation, was created from scratch, this is how capital works in the west. At the expense of capital, they seek to create a new business, new structures or industries with the help of which they will increase capital, while jobs are created that did not exist before and taxes are paid. This is in contrast to the Russian oligarchs who, like hamsters, seek to grab and save capital by buying real estate abroad and increasing the capitalization of Western banks and developing their construction. The oligarchy practically does not invest in Russia, does not create jobs, does not pay taxes.

[Blackmokona]

Quote: nickname7

Today the company acts as the largest satellite communications operator in the world.

Another company, or maybe even a corporation, was created from scratch, this is how capital works in the west. At the expense of capital, they seek to create a new business, new structures or industries with the help of which they will increase capital, while jobs are created that did not exist before and taxes are paid. This is in contrast to the Russian oligarchs who, like hamsters, seek to grab and save capital by buying real estate abroad and increasing the capitalization of Western banks and developing their construction. The oligarchy practically does not invest in Russia, does not create jobs, does not pay taxes.

This is how you do your company, and then the state comes and wrings out. What's the point of doing? Vkontakte was squeezed out, and now Kudrin drove into Yandex to manage. The push has also been completed successfully. Try to do it and be glad that at least they won't put you in jail for your successes.

[nickname7]

Vkontakte squeezed out

UDurov was not taken away, but bought Vkontakte
If Musk, like Durov, refused to cooperate with the authorities of his state, then Musk would also be squeezed out. In the West, there are many cases when the founder of the company is expelled by the shareholders, this happens because the founder is not able to cope with the increase in scale.

Kudrin came to Yandex

He was hired as a well-connected private person, Apple hired one of the former British prime ministers.
I partially agree that the crime rate in the Russian Federation is high, but the oligarchs have sufficient strength so that they are not afraid of spins but do not spend money even on the development of old privatized factories.

[Blackmokona]

1. How was Apple squeezed out after refusing to provide access to iPhones from the FBI?
2. He was appointed by Putin, on the reform which Putin personally approved.

[nickname7]

How was Apple squeezed out after refusing to provide access to iPhones from the FBI?

Apple cooperates with all interested parties and leaks information about customers. Since patriotism is high in the states, it is not customary to show blows to the state. Durov stood in a pose and they bought from him and did not squeeze him out.

Putin appointed him

Well, this is the president, he has the duty to appoint.

[Blackmokona]

Quote: nickname7

How was Apple squeezed out after refusing to provide access to iPhones from the FBI?

Apple cooperates with all interested parties and leaks information about customers. Since patriotism is high in the states, it is not customary to show blows to the state. Durov stood in a pose and they bought from him and did not squeeze him out.

Putin appointed him

Well, this is the president, he has the duty to appoint.

1. As you can google in the media, it doesn’t merge much.
2. To a private company?

[nickname7]

In the US, security is very influential with them to cooperate better.

To a private company?

And he definitely appointed him directly, maybe Kudrin was invited, given that the bureaucrat with connections is a valuable employee?

[Tommy Calhoun]

So maybe in order for a business to invest, you need to create conditions? Low interest rates on loans, an independent judiciary, protection of private property, fair elections, preferential taxation... A thousand times already, economists have written about problems that can not lead to development. But for 20 years we have been sitting, building "stability", we have built stability, but everything is consistently bad, and in the meantime the rest of the world has not stood still, as a result we have what we see today.

[agond]

Quote from Tommy Calhoun

Low interest rate on loans, independent judiciary, protection of private property, fair elections, preferential taxation..

Business is constantly asking, then remove the progressive scale of taxation - they removed it, then give a tax amnesty - they gave it, then it’s allowed not to use cash registers, it was allowed, then reduce checks, they reduced it, then tax holidays, then preferential loans, one-day firms, the export of capital, which is just not came up with a business for thirty years, ,. "No matter how many aolka do not feed, he steadily looks into the forest" - an old folk saying.

[Moneron]

it's time to stop producing projects ... and face harsh realities.
the answer is that there is simply SOMEONE to make a mask in our country .... the titans are gone .... only the pygmies remain.
you will have to grit your teeth to fight with what is in the army .... even if it is cable field phones (but the enemy will not drown out such a connection)

[nickname7]

it's time to stop producing searchlights ... and

The Kremlin must force the oligarchy to devote 80% of its profits to the development and renewal of the funds of its own factories.