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Ok, short thread about why this could be an ecological and cultural disaster. I'm on the beach, so this might be a bit slow..
Expected capacity of Starship is about 150 tonne, so that means about 120 Gen2 Starlinks per launch. That means to deploy 30k sats you need 250 Starship launches. Expected on-orbit lifetime is same as Gen1: 5 to 7yrs.
nasaspaceflight.com/2022/01/starsh…
nasaspaceflight.com/2022/01/starsh…
That means you have to deploy the consellation in less than 5 to years, or you'll never reach 30k sats before they start falling out of the sky. To deploy 30k sats in 5yrs you need 50 Starship launches per year. And this is just one of many proposed constellations..
