Subject: Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

On 2/2/2026 10:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-stargaze-spacex-aims-to-prevent-orbital- starlink-satellite-collisions

?Stargaze is basically a space traffic control platform, and comes about
a month after a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket came within 200 feet of a Starlink craft.?

"Stargaze takes real-time data from Starlink satellites, which currently number over 9,600 in orbit. To navigate, the satellites have been
outfitted with "star trackers," or sensors that continuously survey the surrounding stars to help determine a satellite's location, altitude,
and orientation."

?Those star trackers?which number nearly 30,000?can also detect other orbiting objects, giving SpaceX a way to plot out and predict the
?position and velocity?for all detected objects?in near real-time,? it
wrote in the announcement.?

Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowadays.ÿ Using an open data program to keep track might be a good idea.

Lynn

Musk is now talking about a constellation of (literally) 1 million
satellites (FCC filing) to put AI compute in space, using solar
power, in a polar orbit above Earth's terminator.

It would be very, very visible from the ground.

I really think we're heading towards a Kessler Syndrome event.

pt



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Subject: Re: Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

On 2/2/2026 10:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

<snip>

Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowadays.ÿ Using an
open data program to keep track might be a good idea.

Lynn

Musk is now talking about a constellation of (literally) 1 million
satellites (FCC filing) to put AI compute in space, using solar
power, in a polar orbit above Earth's terminator.

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

It would be very, very visible from the ground.

That's not the only problem with it; consider the
effect on the composition of the atmosphere when
all those satellites burn up at end-of-life.

Not to mention if they do figure out some way to
radiate the heat from the AI processors into space;
that's additional observational pollution for the
astronomers to deal with.

I really think we're heading towards a Kessler Syndrome event.

Looks that way, if not via war, via proliferation.


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Subject: Re: ?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions?

On 2/4/2026 11:34 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 2/2/2026 10:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

?With 'Stargaze,' SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite
Collisions?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-stargaze-spacex-aims-to-prevent-
orbital- starlink-satellite-collisions

?Stargaze is basically a space traffic control platform, and comes
about a month after a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket came
within 200 feet of a Starlink craft.?

"Stargaze takes real-time data from Starlink satellites, which
currently number over 9,600 in orbit. To navigate, the satellites have
been outfitted with "star trackers," or sensors that continuously
survey the surrounding stars to help determine a satellite's location,
altitude, and orientation."

?Those star trackers?which number nearly 30,000?can also detect other
orbiting objects, giving SpaceX a way to plot out and predict the
?position and velocity?for all detected objects?in near real-time,? it
wrote in the announcement.?

Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowadays.ÿ Using
an open data program to keep track might be a good idea.

Lynn

Musk is now talking about a constellation of (literally) 1 million
satellites (FCC filing) to put AI compute in space, using solar
power, in a polar orbit above Earth's terminator.

It would be very, very visible from the ground.

I really think we're heading towards a Kessler Syndrome event.

pt

Yup, I reported this here back on Feb 2:

?SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites for Orbital Data Center Push?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

?In a late Friday FCC filing, the company mentions deploying a
staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ranging from 500
kilometers to 2,000km.?

?The plan is shocking in its scope, and would dwarf the existing
Starlink constellation, which currently spans over 9,600 satellites in
Earth?s orbit.?

Oh my goodness ! We will be able to walk from NEO to GEO on satellites.

Lynn


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