Comments on: NASA officially expresses concerns about proposed private communications constellation

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:07:43 +0000

I want Orbital Antenna Farms

By: janyuary

janyuary — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 23:29:45 +0000

The more dependent that regular earthbound folks become on the technology made possible by those satellites, the more vulnerable they are to a hostile space power. Once the nation that ruled the seas ruled the world ….

Interesting mention the other night on the radio show where I first heard of you, Robert, of the value of intuition in this new age. Purely human and worth gold is intuition.

P.S. Your website here is an escape TO sanity. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:56:42 +0000

I had to look up what the A-Train orbit info is: about 700km above the Earth with an inclination of 98 degrees. Four satellites use this orbit and I can understand the concerns on conjunctions with an inclination like that.
At first I thought they were talking about the Starlink orbits, but those are at 550km. Oneweb’s are at 650km.

By: Richard M

Richard M — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:25:58 +0000

I wondered a bit about this move by NASA, too, since it cerainly is without precedent.

But the “A Train” orbit and sheer size of these are . . . well, they’re not *unreasonable* concerns for NASA. It’s hard to think this filing was not signed off on by Bridenstine, who is anything but hostile to space commerce.

But hopefully, NASA and AST can work out an agreeable compromise that is not a significant threat to NASA/USGS satellites.

By: Spectrum Shift

Spectrum Shift — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:54:54 +0000

I get the feeling NASA is taking a NIMBY attitude about this.