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#spacesustainability — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spacesustainability, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "As of today, any verified satellite operator anywhere in the world can look up an emergency contact for any other verified operator in a single, neutral, institutionally backed platform — for the first time in the history of spaceflight. The gap that platform fills is not technical. It is logistical. And in a low Earth orbit environment where the CRASH Clock research project page now reads 2.2 days, logistics are everything."

    techtimes.com/articles/327287/

    #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceSustainability

  2. "#China could effectively approach nearly 1,400 #Starlink #satellites within 12 hours using just 99 Chinese satellites. These could be equipped with lasers, microwaves and other devices to conduct reconnaissance, tracking or other operations."

    scmp.com/news/china/science/ar

    #Space #SpaceSustainability #SpaceWarfare

  3. More details on the secret #SpaceX satellite constellation program for the U.S. Department of #Defense.

    Perhaps most worrisome: the potential for these assets to become the targets of space warfare, including #ASAT weapons.

    twz.com/space/if-spacexs-secre

    #Space #SpaceWarfare #AntiSatellite #SpaceSustainability

  4. "After decades of reflecting on the basics of nuclear blasts in space, I have come to see the risks as extremely low to nonexistent because a detonation would harm not only the attacked, but also the attacker."

    nytimes.com/2024/03/06/science

    #Space #SpaceSustainability #NuclearWeapons #SpaceWarfare