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Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02…

Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!

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MimiWhiskers

It makes zero sense to launch datacenters in space. I ain't gonna go through the technical reasons why, but you can read here where someone that actually worked at NASA and google explaining why its a bad idea... taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac…

But if I could take a moment to poke my conspiracy brain, I think this is more for building an advanced surveillance network against the whole world. You can possibly monitor almost everything on Earth with a network like that.

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
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Brian Johnson

Ok, so launching one satellite every 10 minutes nonstop would take almost 20 years to launch a million satellites, and that is assuming that someone can build them and deliver them to launch pads at that rate.

Completely unrealistic. Is this really about launching that much or is it about generating hype before trying to sell something or raise money?

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Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen

@BrianJohnson Odds definitely say that a million AI datacenters in orbit is just more fragile ego twitter trolling for shareholders.

However playing with the numbers conservatively, using the 2025 SpaceX launch numbers (down from initial targets) and assuming starlink sattellites get retooled (or just rebranded) as "AI datacenters" for twitter/shareholder creds, SpaceX would need 125 years to launch 1mill units. 62.5 years if using Starship.

Plenty damage early on "for the lols"

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I would say, probably nothing we write is going to matter. Both these companies know who to send kick backs to in order to ensure that this will happen... The main thing we have on our side is that if they put 1 million data centers in low earth orbit, it is going to make it impossible to launch anything into space without collisions becoming extremely frequent. Everything Elon does is riddled with bugs, because he is just sloppy and hires sloppy and shitty engineers that are like him, mostly because he is a narcissist, but I digress... These things will break and crash into each other and come crashing down on people's homes and if we are lucky they will land directly on Elon's head. Since once they are in free fall it's basically anybody's guess where they might end up landing. The things these idiots do have consequences... Mostly for other people because that's how statistics works, but if they do enough dumb shit, eventually it becomes much more likely to effect themselves.
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