According to reports, the U.S. Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX) successfully launched 23 communication satellites with a reusable "Falcon 9" rocket on the 15th, increasing the current total number of "Starlink" satellites to 173.
This is the initial implementation of the concept of a "space network". The user coverage of the data experiment and beta test has already benefited parts of the United States and Canada with the "Starlink" network keyboard dragon, and is expected to reach global coverage in the future.
Some time ago, the company has submitted a new round of satellite launch applications to the Federal Communications Commission, planning to launch about 30,000 satellites in the next few years, expanding the size of the constellation by more than ten times.
The sheer scale of Starlink has also raised public concerns, and while providing global coverage, it will have a non-negligible impact on ground observations, astronomical observations and other fields.
NASA personnel have expressed concern that the "Starlink" launch plan has had an impact on astronomical observations, especially the observation and discovery of relevant asteroids.
In order to mitigate the impact of Starlink, the Federal Communications Commission and Starlink operators have launched negotiations and cooperation, seeking to avoid the problems of spectrum interference and light pollution caused by it on the premise of ensuring the quality of satellite services.
The author thinks. In today's days when the Internet has become ubiquitous, people's requirements for network signals have become higher and higher. However, there are not many places in the world where there is network coverage, but with this "Starlink" satellite, the network signal may be more complete in the future.
The sheer scale of Starlink has also raised public concerns, and while providing global coverage, it will have a non-negligible impact on ground observations, astronomical observations and other fields.
Therefore, on the premise of ensuring the quality of satellite services, we can avoid the problems of spectrum interference and light pollution that are generated, so as to truly bring people a more convenient network experience.