I'd be curious to know if they respond by trying to improve resilience or simply just chuck another forty up
on the basis that if they had moved to a higher position they'd presumably not have been affected so possibly it isn't worth spending time and money on improving their ability to ride out a storm.
Is Starlink good? No idea, I've seen complaints from astronomers whose photographs are affected but I'd assume that isn't just Starlink.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 9:34, Reply)
They'd just been launched and hadn't raised orbit yet
It was the massive increase in drag from the heated upper atmosphere wot got em, not the radiation. If they'd been on station they'd have done just as well as the other Christ knows how many thousand already up there. Just shitty timing really. Only realistic solution is to chalk fuck on it and launch another job lot.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 13:05, Reply)