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Date: January 24, 2020 at 20:11:27
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may have vi |
URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-license-fcc-environmental-law-2020-1?fbclid=IwAR1jHAr7Yyyg5P0zKscFE7f3syXH2e6APS2byn7ko3oBN2B1YeXnL_49Nrc |
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SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may have violated the law, experts say. Astronomers could sue the FCC.
Jan 22, 2020, 11:08 AM
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Date: January 25, 2020 at 10:07:44
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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i just don't know how he can get away with this...seems like 'space' has no regulations and is free game for anyone..
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Date: January 25, 2020 at 12:57:08
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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I do hope they pursue suing them, at the least for all that toxic mercury fuel..
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Date: January 25, 2020 at 13:54:06
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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At January 25, 2020 at 12:57:08, pamela wrote:
I do hope they pursue suing them, at the least for all that toxic mercury fuel..
Get your fact straight, SpaceX doesnt use it - are you perhaps confusing it with 'Apollo Fusion' start up company
in Ca developing ion engines
For example, the recently deceased Dawn spacecraft used a xenon engine to zip from place to place in the
asteroid belt (way about low earth orbit!) . During the SERT test missions, however, the satellite engines used
mercury.
Mercury is much heavier than either xenon or krypton, so spacecraft carrying them would be able to generate
more thrust. Of course, mercury is also a dangerous neurotoxin, so NASA stopped using it after SERT.
Apollo Fusion is planning to bring mercury back, at least according to a collection of industry insiders. If they’re
successful, they could provide low-cost, high-power ion engines for satellites and spacecraft.
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Date: January 26, 2020 at 15:02:22
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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My comment was for those using the Mercury fuel- both were discussed in the article. (them meaning those who are using it)
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Date: January 26, 2020 at 15:30:58
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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Can you name the satellites currently using mercury as a fuel that you want
stopped.
Also what do you think would happen if a satellite stopped using their
engines to maintain altitude and orientation?
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Date: January 25, 2020 at 02:05:47
From: sequoia, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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Hi Pamela,
on the astronomers' appeal:
http://www.earthboppin.net/talkshop/enviro/messages/16894.html
It does not surprise me at all that SpaceX and the FCC comingle
their interests as all they want is money and power to dominate
everyone else. They don't give a nanogramm of spacesh.t how
disastrous their technology turns out for the environment and all
living beings on earth.
:::
I would also like to point out that in some links you posted there is
additional information which could theoretically be used for
unwanted identification or tracking.
In your above message it begins with "?fbclid". Usually, you can
remove everything after the "?". The link should still work.
However, there may be exceptions to this rule.
This is how it looks without the extra stuff:
https://www.businessinsider.de/international/spacex-starlink-
satellite-license-fcc-environmental-law-2020-1
No environmental impact studies? Of course not. They are the
rulers who tell everyone else how good they are.
sequoia
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Date: January 25, 2020 at 12:55:45
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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Yep, techie freaks, stick together- for BIG money. Not green at all.
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Date: January 24, 2020 at 20:40:24
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: SpaceX's license to launch hundreds of internet satellites may... |
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After Bell learned about Apollo Fusion's plans, he submitted a complaint to the FCC on behalf of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, arguing that mercury-fueled satellites could easily slip through the FCC's review process.
In that complaint, he calculated that an entire constellation of mercury-fueled satellites could release 200 tons of the toxic substance into the atmosphere.
"These things would just be able to be launched without anyone ever looking at the consequences of it," Ryan said. "That's probably the stronger argument for having a court intervene."
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