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Astronomer Carl Lindeman claims the impossibility of shooting down these satellites which could cause orbital pollution.
South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched a network of orbiting satellites intended to deliver super-fast Internet around the world.
Musk’s Space X successfully launched 60 satellites into orbit last week as part of the Starlink project, but astronomers around the world are worried that their enjoyment of the night sky will be permanently ruined.
According to reports, there are about 12,000 satellites planned to be placed in low earth orbit.
If something goes wrong, how will this project affect planet Earth and space?
Carl Lindeman, a member of the Cape Center of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, says satellites have the potential to pollute orbit when the technology becomes obsolete.
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In a technological society, Internet access is the lifeblood and the cost of data is absurd.
Carl Lindeman, Cape Center member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
I’m totally on board to find cheap internet access. Having said that, what is the correct way to do it?
Carl Lindeman, Cape Center member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Whatever technology they plan to come up with, we know it will become obsolete in 10 years and the problem is that these orbiting objects have been there for millennia.
Carl Lindeman, Cape Center member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Once the stuff is out, it’s not only hard to take apart, it’s literally impossible.
Carl Lindeman, Cape Center member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
How will these satellites affect the very important research conducted by astronomers and also by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) of South Africa?
If you have dozens upon dozen of these transmitters floating above the SKA at any given moment, it becomes useless.
Carl Lindeman, Cape Center member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
The multimillion-dollar multi-decade project that will bring huge innovations, breakthroughs and jobs will go out the window to enable a business to become a technology soon obsolete, now how wise is that?
Carl Lindeman, Cape Center member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
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