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On Valentine\u2019s Day, 2018,\u00a0Elon Musk announced an audacious plan to launch 12,000 low-orbit satellites \u201cto beam an ultrafast, lag-free Internet connection\u201d to every square inch of the earth. They will contain\u00a0PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and will operate in the\u00a0MILLIMETER WAVE SPECTRUM<\/i><\/b>. In other words,\u00a05G FROM SPACE<\/i>.<\/b>\u00a0The first two test satellites were launched on a Falcon 9 rocket one week later. News reports say \u201cThe\u00a0initial satellites in the network are\u00a0expected to come online\u00a0next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each satellite will be the size of a mini-refrigerator and weigh about 400 kg. 4,425 satellites will be at an altitude of about 700 miles and 7,518 satellites will be at an altitude of only 210 miles.<\/p>\n
To give you an idea of just how radical of an assault this will be, as of September 2017 there were a grand total of 1,738 operating satellites in orbit. About 1,000 of them were in low orbit (less than 1,000 miles above the earth).\u00a0None of them were lower than\u00a0250 miles in altitude.<\/b>\u00a0Only 208 low orbit satellites were used for communication. Only 125 (Iridium and Globalstar) were for cell phone service.\u00a0None of them provided high speed data.<\/b>\u00a0None of them were phased arrays.<\/b><\/p>\n
The earth has never experienced anything like this. Even if Musk\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket could launch 100 of these satellites at a time, which is likely, that still means 120 rocket launches. If he wants to get them all up there in a year\u2019s time, that\u2019s one launch every three days. And there are other companies that want to launch thousands of satellites each to do the same thing. OneWeb plans to launch the first ten of its planned\u00a04,560 satellites in May 2018. Boeing plans a fleet of 2,956 satellites.<\/p>\n
The earth\u2019s protective ozone layer is still being depleted,\u00a0scientists have just discovered<\/a>, even though everyone thought the problem was solved by the Montreal Protocol.\u00a0With so many rockets blasting holes in the atmosphere these days, that could be the reason. But nobody is talking about it.<\/p>\n The most current satellite database, kept by the Union of Concerned Scientists, is here:\u00a0http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ucs-documents\/nuclear-weapons\/sat-database\/9-1-17-update\/UCS_Satellite_Database_9-1-2017.xlsx<\/a><\/p>\n Musk\u2019s scheme alone could cause catastrophic ozone loss, and it could also destroy all life on the planet. Musk\u2019s company, SpaceX, is calling this project \u201cStarlink.\u201d<\/p>\n GUARDS (Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space (http:\/\/stopglobalwifi.org<\/a>) is actively opposing this project. We need people with ideas, connections, and skills. Contact me if you want to help.<\/p>\n