I would also like to see more collaboration, and there are many nuanced reasons why the US would rather not. Just one of them is that this launch resulted in this:

https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1804542638034661522

I can’t imagine being one of the scientists designing and cheering on this mission and then realizing my country’s funds caused that scene. Thank goodness the US doesn’t drop empty stages (containing extremely dangerous chemicals in this case) on populated areas, this kind of behavior cannot be tolerated.

A lot wrong here, I’m sorry to say, and I’m really not a fan of Musk. He is absolutely not selling Starlink to be used by Russia. That would be shut down real quick. (They may be using black-market terminals, but that’s a different question.) And this new constellation will, as I understand it, be owned and operated by the US govt. Think like every single spy satellite ever: govt finds a contractor and asks them to do a thing.

The De Cecco box always recommends 56g, and I never feel like I need any more!

I’m switching to back to Linux for the first time in 8 years. Grew up on Mandrivia for no reason other than that’s what my dad liked, got a MacBook for school, and now that my OS isn’t getting updates I want something fresh and free! Thinking of getting my toes wet with Linux Mint :)

You’re right, that’s my bad. I just meant to say the debris hasn’t gone into orbit.

It blew up about 3000 km/hr short of orbit, so thankfully all of it has burned up in Earth’s atmosphere already :)

It blew up about 3000 km/hr short of orbit, so thankfully all of it has burned up in Earth’s atmosphere already :)