{"id":88952,"date":"2019-03-26T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacex-proves-higher-than-necessary-safety-of-starlink-constellation"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:22:43","slug":"spacex-proves-higher-than-necessary-safety-of-starlink-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacex-proves-higher-than-necessary-safety-of-starlink-constellation","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX proves higher than necessary safety of Starlink constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P9r0rSPT4ns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an electronic filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX has demonstrated a higher than necessary safety for their Starlink constellation satellites in terms of collision risk with other objects in orbit in the scenario that a Starlink satellite becomes uncontrollable after launch.<\/p>\n<p>The filing, in response to FCC questions, reveals SpaceX\u2019s upcoming space-based internet project carries a collision risk 2.1 times less likely than the accepted NASA standard.<\/p>\n<p>The filing occurred on 13 March 2019 in response to a series of FCC follow-up questions from previous approvals and relates to SpaceX\u2019s upcoming deployment of the first batch of Starlink satellites into an initial operational orbit of 550 km.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/spacex-higher-necessary-safety-starlink-constellation\/\">https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/spacex-higher-necess...tellation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an electronic filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX has demonstrated a higher than necessary safety for their Starlink constellation satellites in terms of collision risk with other objects in orbit in the scenario that a Starlink satellite becomes uncontrollable after launch. The filing, in response to FCC questions, reveals SpaceX\u2019s upcoming space-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}