The US space agency says it has 'concerns with the potential for a significant increase in the frequency of conjunction events'.
s SpaceX previously received authorisation to offer broadband internet from 12,000 satellites and has since requested authorisation for a second-generation constellation of 30,000 satellites.said it"has concerns with the potential for a significant increase in the frequency of conjunction events".The US space agency also expressed worry about the possible impacts to its science and human spaceflight missions.
There are currently 25,000 total objects tracked on-orbit - and around 6,100 below 600km, NASA noted.SpaceX's Gen2 expansion"would more than double the number of tracked objects in orbit and increase the number of objects below 600 km over five-fold," it said. Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who is part of the American Astronomical Society panel examining the impacts of satellites on astronomy said:"We've been concerned with having these large numbers of satellites that interfere with astronomical observations."
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