Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites

At what point should we start worrying about Kessler Syndrome?<p>&gt; <i>The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading or ablation cascade), proposed by the NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.[3] One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations.[3]</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kessler_syndrome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kessler_syndrome</a>

Private corporations owning more and more utility infrastructure really concerns me.<p>Is there a world where nations band together and launch this as public infrastructure rather than private corporations lobbying a USA government agency for permission?

It seems like no coincidence that Amazon is also building a ground station network as part of AWS. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;ground-station&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;ground-station&#x2F;</a>

Anyone wanna offer me their hypothesis on what Amazon and other tech companies gain from offering internet to people who probably aren&#x27;t valuable consumers?

I wonder if it would ever make sense to set up some &quot;IXP satellites&quot; so that Amazon and SpaceX&#x27;s (and whoever else enters this space) various LEO networks could switch in space.

I am looking forward to when Huawei put up their global network... Charge zero for the uplink devices if you buy the first 6 months up front using bitcoin. With free Huaflix and sports channels (unlicenced, use at consumers own risk).

Surely every country around the world needs to be involved in approving something like this. Amazon does not get my vote to put anything that could potentially become space junk in the air above South Africa.<p>Not yet at least. What is the benefit to humanity as a whole?

Amazon ring and echo captures a lot of data, but imagine how much more they get as an isp?

Are there any international agreements covering this stuff?<p>What if China decide they want to launch another 3000 and Russia want to launch another 3000 and India and Japan and whoever else?

The amazing thing to me is that this article does not include the words “spacex” or “starlink” once in the webpage.<p>Do you have to pay extra for that sort of press hit?

Iridium has global coverage (you can make phone calls from the South Pole) but isn&#x27;t LEO so there&#x27;s a latency issue. Starlink is LEO and will have faster rates &amp; lower latency, but won&#x27;t have global coverage since the orbits don&#x27;t go over the poles (sorry, Amundsen-Scott!).<p>What about the proposed Amazon (Blue Origin?) system?

So what it&#x27;s gonna be like - latency and bandwidth?

The Gilded Age had <i>nothing</i> on this. Two billionaires are battling over ownership of communication in the sky.<p>Is the winner &quot;Prince of The Air&quot;?

Who else thinks these systems deliver wireless high speed Internet faster than 5G?

You’ll be able to summon Alexa from anywhere... without even owning an Amazon device! :)

Upon whose rockets?

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They&#x27;re just copying SpaceX. That&#x27;s disappointing.

Should anybody be putting satellites up without some credible plan for decommissioning them from the atmosphere?

Maybe it&#x27;s time to talk about tech-free preserves established by international treaties.<p>E.g.: sections of each continent and ocean can be declared tech free where modern technology is forbidden on earth,sea or land.<p>This is so we don&#x27;t lose and forget the nature that forged the present.

There goes my privacy!<p>I can&#x27;t even think about a horrible company like Amazon being an ISP too! Think about all the privacy issues that we are going to have!<p>But if they do this, this is going to be good for the US broadband customers who don&#x27;t have internet currently. Not to mention they are stuck with monopoly companies without any competition and options. This is going to wake Comcast, AT&amp;T, Verizon, Sprint and Charter!<p>But Amazon is going to screw your net neutrality in the most crazy way once the initial period of cheap plans gets over and they have a strong monopoly of user base!

Welcome to the dystopian future where no human anywhere on Earth can look up and see an authentic sky, as their ancestors did.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;science&#x2F;starlink-spacex-astronomers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;science&#x2F;starlink-spacex-a...</a><p>And thanks to SpaceX (and now Amazon), astronomers will now have to do their observations from space. If only there was a way to get telescopes up there. Oh, wait... SpaceX just happens to have a way to solve the problem it created!