SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

Hopefully LEO constellations can be made redundant with terrestrial comms.

Are there additional terrestrial signal propagation modes that could solve for the same needs as satellite data?

So, at some point, will our devices connect to their corporate offices in any environment, even without providing access to your network, short of putting it inside a Faraday Cage?

So over 100K starlink sats and then another 50K mirror sats (see that other HN post). Leaving aside the very tragic destruction of the night sky for observers, I’m afraid for the day we have a cascade of satellite debris events that send us backwards an and pretty much destroy our spacefaring ability.

The sky gets visually and physically polluted. Some parts of the world that haven’t mastered cables get faster internet. Elon gets richer.

Win-win-win?

Can't wait for Kessler syndrome to actually become a thing.

I was surprised recently to read that the centre-point of the orbits of the starlink satellites doesn't actually correspond to the earth's physical centre. Instead, they orbit around the centre of Elon Musk's ego. As he moves over the surface of the planet, the constellation actually shifts its orbits in response.

> 100k more – for 100x the bandwidth

I guess some things do not scale. The only thing that humans are good producing, is garbage.

I can't wait until this junk starts to collide and blocks us from making any space flights. This has to happen and probability grows with the square of the number of orbiting satellites.

Will it make our sky "cloudy" most of the time?

i want to see a dark sky at night

I don't think Musk needs any more money.

no, just no

make them pre-pay a multi-trillion cleanup and cancer fund for all the toxic waste, not just the launches but pollution burning up in the atmosphere

* https://satellitemap.space/

* https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellit...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042

EM is an ignorant.

soooo good that they'll burn up one day and this nonsense can finally end.

investors provide infinite capital to nonsense projects so that the showman can create an endless show that will attract new nonsense capital.

sorry but already in rural morocco they have 200 mbit internet for 20 bucks a month. Yes there are some 6 wheeled vehicles roaming the planet that might really benefit from these 100k satellites. but for 99.9% of everyone else? we're good!

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Musk is nothing if not ambitious

So SpaceX is just an overvalued internet provider?

How could this not end poorly? I cant think of one realistic scenario where there world benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

I wonder what spacex will be worth when launching satellites is impossible for a couple hundred years.

Commercially speaking, does Starlink really need 100x bandwidth?

Starlink's target market is limited. It is very good for ships, remote area, but not necessary in cities where most people live.

I am not sure whether the launch and maintenance cost of another 100k satellites is necessary for such a limited market, unless the cost of launch (Starship) and the satellites themselves drops greatly.

Always surprises me how people feel identified with progress they didn’t participate with. These satellites have nothing to do with you. You didn’t build them nor researched about them. These are the toys of a far-right asshole. It sucks