• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      They aren’t maintained. They’re a constellation of small satellites in LEO like starlink that just go up and eventually come down.

      If they’re too far up latency would be too high

      No one is repairing any of these starlink type dishes.

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        3 hours ago

        Wasn’t it recently proven that the metals introduced into the upper atmosphere by satellites burning up depletes ozone? Its not a problem yet but maintaining constellations on the scale of cumulative several gigawatts of data centre would leave several tons of satellite burning up every single day. CFC Ozone hole is gonna look like a cloudy day in comparison.