China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
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·August 24, 2025dash2
ninkendo
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I don't use the damn satellites and I miss the version of the sky I did use. The sats are so damn distracting when you're just stargazing. Space used to be the last place we could (mostly) gaze beyond the reach of man. From here on out it's the human circus, 24/7.
gpm
There's been visible satellites in the sky literally my entire life. And airplanes. The newer generation of satellites (whether Starlink or Iridium's replacement satellites) are significantly less bright and less disruptive, not more, though they are still swamped by airplanes in less remote places.
Avicebron
"It was us that scorched the sky" :/
SilverElfin
The big problem is debris. These higher satellites will take hundreds of years to fall out of orbit if they end up malfunctioning.
wkat4242
Yeah they'd better have some kind of deorbit engine. A starlink is only around for 10 years or so.
dottjt
Nothing is a problem on a short enough timeline.
I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.