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Huh? They launched plenty of Starlink satellites since March, they may not be enough to keep up with the shutdowns, but rockets have been going up.
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-log/
Spaceflight now is a blurb talking about the launches. There's no evidence these satellites are active. No defense contractor is waiting three months for a deployment. Also, no amount of Elon shill upvotes will convince anyone you are right when you are clearly completely wrong.
There aren't any defense contractors involved in this, it's a commercial internet service from a for-profit company. They can take as long as they want to activate their satellites as long as they're still communicating with the ground, which they are.
SpaceX is a defense contractor. They handle the majority of the United States govts. satellites. They are working with Northrup Grumman. They are definitely a defense contractor.
Fair, bad choice of words on my part. What I was trying to say is that Starlink isn't a government owned asset, it's a commercial product. While it has the potential for defense applications, the government has no reason to pressure them to activate satellites faster than SpaceX want to.
I know they’re relatively small but 1200 seems like a lot to be up there doing nothing.
They get them up there but they are not being deployed.
What does "deployed" mean in this context, then?
I should have said "activated". I corrected it so people would understand.
Yeah not to defend Elon or anything, but this post seems pretty misleading now that I'm looking into it. It doesn't look like they're failing to deploy satellites at all. They're up there and communicating with the ground based on every tracking site I'm looking at (including the one linked in the post). I don't know why the new satellites aren't being added to the network as soon as they're launched, but these satellites aren't dead so it seems way more likely to be a logistical choice rather than literally every satellite launched in the last 3 months immediately failing.
You have a link to back up that statement?
The fact that they've been launching satellites for months? Here's a Starlink satellite that launched last week I guess. You can search for Starlink in the catalog there and see tons of others in orbit as well from launches just over the past few weeks.Wikipedia also graphs all the Falcon 9 launch outcomes and it looks like they haven't had a failure to deploy a satellite to orbit since 2016?
Can you back up the claim that these satellites are failing before they've even been turned on? That seems like something that would be covered pretty extensively.
I'm not contesting the rocket launches. The whole point is that the normal activation time is 3 days. It was the nearly the same for all of the versions. The V2 had the largest with 5 day activation time. The activation time on these is 90 days+. My point is he's trying to raise money to cover for the fact his activation time is now 90+ days.