Russia’s answer to Starlink just lost its first satellite
(defence-blog.com)
UkraineOh no! Whoopsie
The absence of any official government statement about the launch points to the sensitivity surrounding the program, which sits at the intersection of Russia’s commercial space ambitions, its military communications requirements, and the broader contest over satellite-based internet infrastructure that Starlink has made a strategic priority for governments worldwide.
Darn, maybe bullshitting absolutely everything including rocket design doesn't work out in the end?
Maybe shithead oligarchs are too incompetent to be trusted to competently run space programs?
Unfortunately, they sent up 15 other satellites in the same launch. These flew from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Archangelsk, about 800km north of Moscow; I know it's kind of a stretch, but really want to see Ukraine send some drones to participate in the next launch.
Starlink has lost over a hundred satellites. Satellite constellations really don't care about individual failures.
Maybe shithead oligarchs are too incompetent to be trusted to competently run space programs?
You talking about Musk?
Don't forget Bezos!
Presumably not given Starlink is working fine.
Starlink loses 400 satellites a year. Only some of those are because of planned obsolescence.
I hate Russia for invading Ukraine but this is jingoism.
They're designed to be continuously deorbited and replaced like that.
Starlink is working fine. It's not jingoism, you can literally buy Starlink service and it'll work for you. SpaceX is making money on the constellation. Ukraine is using it to win the war, Russia was also using it before they got cut off and the fact that they got cut off was a major hindrance to their operations. How is any of that "jingoism?"
hey’re designed to be continuously deorbited and replaced like that.
As I said, they're not all done because of obsolescence. Many are deorbited because of failure, not for upgrade reasons.
I didn't say Starlink doesn't work. It's jingoism because Russia loses a single satellite and it's advertised as a huge failure. Meanwhile Starlink loses 14 satellites in 6 months to failure (not part of their standard deorbit) and its "normal business operations".
https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/spacex-semi-annual-update-on-starlink-network-health-failure-rate-collision-risk
Rassvet is slated to eventually have as many as 900 satellites. Currently it has just 16. Well, 15.
Starlink currently has 10575 active Starlink satellites in orbit out of a planned constellation of 42000.
Losing 14 satellites to failures is indeed "normal business operations" for Starlink. Hardware fails sometimes, it's accounted for in the business plan.
If Russia lost 14 they wouldn't have a constellation at all any more.
SpaceX is famous for failing constantly. Musk was always tweeting before he bought Twitter about how the latest rocket failure was another learning opportunity.
Again it's not that Starlink doesn't work. It's how the news is framed that makes it jingoism. Starlink lost dozens of satellites when they were first starting in 2019.
SpaceX is famous for failing constantly.
SpaceX is the largest space launch company in the world. Out of hundreds of Falcon 9 launches since 2010 only three have failed. I don't know where this fame for "constant failure" is coming from but it seems more likely motivated by dislike of Musk than by actual statistics.
Again it's not that Starlink doesn't work.
Something's inconsistent here.
