Kepler’s plan may not actually involve as many satellites as its proposal suggests. Musk’s company is known, is one of several other private companies looking to build the capacity to beam internet connectivity from space – particularly to rural and remote areas that are now underserved by current broadband providers it plans to launch more than 40,000 satellites in the coming years. (An s-band is a satellite frequency band used by weather, ship and some communications satellites.) “And we thought Starlink was the problem,” tweeted Petr Bohacek, a space applications specialist at the HiLASE Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, referring to the fast-growing LEO satellite constellation operated by Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. “This would increase the *ENTIRE* 2021 space population 34 times in a *busy* S-band region,” tweeted Chris Bridges, a lecturer at University of Surrey’s Space Centre in England. “Just how many satellites can we fill space with,” Christopher Johnson, a space law adviser with space sustainability NGO Secure World Foundation, tweeted in response to Kepler’s filing.
They have mounting concerns about the potential impacts of a growing number of planned LEO satellite launches, which they fear could clutter the view for casual stargazers and astronomers – and create chaos in the heavens from collisions that could damage functioning spacecraft, affect communications on Earth and even put lives at risk.
News of Kepler’s filing with the United Nations regulatory body elicited a worried reaction from some space watchers. It would comprise more than nine times the total number of satellites launched from Earth since the Russians sent up Sputnik in 1957, of which 7,630 are still in orbit, according to the European Space Agency. applied to the International Telecommunications Union for permission to put a constellation of satellites into Earth’s lower orbit (LEO) – a band between 200 and 2,000 kilometres above the planet’s surface.
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Log In Create Free AccountĪ Canadian space startup has caused a global stir with a proposal that would see the skies filled with tens of thousands of communications satellites bearing its technology – 114,852 satellites to be exact. We can be proud that the whole squad is important.Please log in to bookmark this story. “Maybe in recent seasons when we make so many changes it doesn’t always go the way you want and the performance drops, but I think tonight was a good example. “Whether it’s the Carabao Cup, the FA Cup will be starting soon, the last few Champions League games where we’ve made changes. “I think that just stands us in good stead every game going forward,” he added. It’s also great news for Klopp and the club with games coming thick and fast over the holiday period and Africa’s Cup of Nations complicating matters in the new year. “Having moments of success, understanding what we needed to do, the levels we have to set and how relentless we have to be to achieve things.”įor Oxlade-Chamberlain, it was also a night that hinted at a player who just might be getting back to something like the form he showed when first signing for Liverpool and before a serious knee injury set him back.Īt a personal level that’s great news for the player. “I think that comes with playing together for years,” he explained. “I think the team is in the best shape it’s been,” was midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s take on the situation as he reflected on a victory that seemed far easier than it should have in the circumstances. It was a game that mattered massively to Milan. It was a game that didn’t matter at all for the Reds given they’d already qualified for the Champions League knockout rounds.
On Tuesday, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp sent out an almost entirely rotated side stocked heavily with fringe first team players and promising youngsters against Seria A leaders AC Milan at the San Siro.