{"id":123109,"date":"2021-05-27T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/spacex-starlink-how-it-could-kickstart-an-uncontrolled-experiment"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:22:58","slug":"spacex-starlink-how-it-could-kickstart-an-uncontrolled-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/spacex-starlink-how-it-could-kickstart-an-uncontrolled-experiment","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starlink: how it could kickstart an \u2018uncontrolled experiment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-starlink-how-it-could-kickstart-an-uncontrolled-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper for Nature this month, researchers claim the development of mega-constellations like Starlink \u201crisks multiple tragedies of the commons, including tragedies to ground-based astronomy, Earth orbit, and Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Perhaps the biggest effects could come as the satellites start to deorbit, sparking what could be a major experiment in geoengineering.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s SpaceX launch is the 29th batch of Starlink satellites since the first in May 2019, building out the firm\u2019s internet connectivity constellation. Starlink aims to offer high-speed and low latency internet access almost anywhere with a view of a ground terminal.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has now launched 1737 satellites for Starlink, with <a class href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/stats\/star\/starstats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">951 operational<\/a>. Starlink satellites typically take a few months to move into position and start operations. Starlink is already the biggest single constellation in space, but the firm has applied for permission to launch up to 42000 satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper for Nature this month, researchers claim the development of mega-constellations like Starlink \u201crisks multiple tragedies of the commons, including tragedies to ground-based astronomy, Earth orbit, and Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere.\u201d Perhaps the biggest effects could come as the satellites start to deorbit, sparking what could be a major experiment in geoengineering. This week\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}