Prof. Sam LawlerI have not updated my Starlink numbers in a while, and great flying fuckballs, is it ever bad. We are now up to 9,422 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 14,046 total active satellites.
1,446 Starlinks have reentered and added their 500-1500kg of computers, batteries, solar panels, and aluminum frame to the upper atmosphere (and at least one has hit the ground).
Prof. Sam LawlerOther megaconstellations are starting to catch up a bit now. Which is why the CRASH Clock (our team's measure of how long it would take for a collision if all satellite maneuvers suddenly stopped) is so ridiculously short: 5 days in our updated calculation
OneWeb has 654 up out of 7,000 planned
Kuiper has 180 out of 3,000 planned
Xingwang has 160 out of 1,000 planned
Satellite numbers from https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html
Prof. Sam LawlerSorry that was depressing and everything is already terrible. I would normally post a photo of my goats, but they are far far away right now.
So, here are some very happy goats in Victoria we found yesterday, happily eating Christmas trees.