I Have a Little Black Hole

You said that in this case, the space exploration company will take the initiative to provoke the Infinite Gravity Group, unless the entire senior management of their company is brainless.

Although the market value of space exploration companies has not declined due to technology in recent years, it has risen to its current high market value due to various capital operations.

But their company has also offended many people for this business plan. Many people, including communication operators, astronomers, and governments of various countries, are very disgusted with this plan.

Doesn't the Infinite Gravity Group have more advanced satellite communication technology? How is it possible that the communication system they are using now is at least ten years more advanced than the communication systems of other countries, but even so, the Infinite Gravity Group has not intervened in the communication industry.

Because the communication industry is very sensitive no matter which country it is in, the supervision is also very strict. Although Lei Tiantang is not afraid of trouble, he does not want to wrestle with people every day in terms of communication security and information security. very.

He is neither short of money nor the means to make money, why should he go to this muddy water?

And if the space exploration company did not have the support of the old US government and the old US military, it would be impossible for them to successfully launch so many satellites into space orbit!

According to the latest data from the United Nations Satellite Registration website, there are about 5,800 artificial satellites still in orbit, but among this number, SpaceX's Starlink satellites account for 2,300.

Even SpaceX's Starlink satellite network will nearly triple that number as it previously planned for 12,000 satellites.

In similar projects, Star Chain is not the only participant. The fact that so many satellites are competing for the natural sky has sparked a lot of criticism in the astronomy community.

An oft-cited example is the completion of a $466 million, 8-meter-wide, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope with a 3.2-gigapixel camera in Chile that was supposed to scan the sky quickly in the 2020s.

However, with the formation of the Starlink satellite constellation, many images taken with this telescope have been contaminated by it, and the long-exposure photos may contain dozens of satellite moving track stripes.

The large survey telescope simulated the impact of future 42,000 Starlink satellites on observations and found that 30% of the images will contain at least one satellite trajectory.

These satellite devices that clog space have angered astronomers, who are finding it increasingly difficult to observe space from the ground because light reflected from the satellites blocks the view.

Some space agencies have even considered letting companies like SpaceX pay for every satellite launched, hoping to reduce the spread of space junk.

The main reason why the Infinite Gravity Group is disgusted with the Starlink satellite system of the Space Exploration Company is also due to this, because it is obvious that the company's land observatory is also suffering from it when it probes the universe.

It's just that as the company sends more space probes into Earth orbit and farther into space, and even starts building new large-scale astronomical telescope detection systems on the moon, the company's astronomers don't bother to talk to them anymore.

Because at this time, the company's ground observation system has changed from the main exploration method to the auxiliary exploration method. It is better to devote energy to exploring the universe if you have the time to wrestle. Anyway, these Starlink satellites are not too good for them. much influence.

Their company has money and technology to solve this kind of impact, but the astronomers in the observatories who have finally built them through grants, donations, and fundraising everywhere can't accept this.

It is not a simple matter for them to launch outer space probes. The ground observation observatory is still their main observation method, so they are the most disgusted by this kind of satellites that drift by row by row.

The International Astronomical Union long ago issued a statement expressing concerns and protests that such projects could damage the natural sky and interfere with radio astronomy frequencies, in which the association described this space frontier as a new frontier. and largely unregulated.”

Since no one thought the number of satellite launches would grow so fast, regulation has yet to keep pace with this nascent field, and part of the reason SpaceX is moving so fast is to take advantage of the current regulatory vacuum, before the rules , to maximize the opportunity.

Another question is, does the communications satellite project need to be so huge? In their opinion, the only reason to launch more satellites than are actually needed is to show off, because from a public and funding standpoint, more is better.

But SpaceX and the old U.S. military have reached an agreement long ago to use SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation to conduct communications tests for the old U.S. Army.

SpaceX agreed to the old U.S. Army to conduct communication tests on the company's Starlink low-orbit broadband constellation. After all, this satellite system will consist of thousands or even tens of thousands of satellites. If it is integrated into the existing system of the U.S. military , is bound to bring a huge improvement to the U.S. military's communication security and monitoring system.

And with the good results of multiple rounds of tests, after the old U.S. military has begun to use these satellites, SpaceX has obviously obtained the permission of the old U.S. government and military, and has more freedom to pollute space, otherwise they will It's also impossible for the company to launch 2,300 satellites in just a few short years.

After all, the United States will spare no expense for national security, no matter how boring the reasons given are, which is why the protests of various governments or those astronomical institutions have little effect.

This is also the reason why Lei Tiantang and Jiang Yuting judged that the old US government and military were the mastermind behind the crash of their company's satellite.

After all, it is not the first time that the old American government has been so crazy. A long time ago, the old American government has implemented a plan that is even crazier than the Starlink satellite network, that is, the West Ford Needle Plan.

During the Cold War, in order to compete with the former Soviet Union for space development capabilities, the US government planned to put 430 million copper needles in space. The purpose is to use these high-density space metal objects to help the US spread its medium and short wave radio in space. Signal.

But the result was a slap in the face of Lao Mei. Not long after these copper needles were launched into space, they deviated from their orbits, and many of them fell into the atmosphere and burned up. Later, when Lao Mei investigated the reason, he found that it turned out that the scientists did not consider the effect of light pressure on the copper needle.

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