Spacex has changed the orbits of some Starlink satellites, the head of Ilon Mask reported on Twitter. The application of the entrepreneur brings Interfax.
“We had to move the orbits of some Starlink satellites to reduce the likelihood of collision [with cosmic garbage],” wrote a businessman.
According to him, the cargo space ship Dragon has a protective screen that allows you to withstand small high-speed cosmic garbage particles.
In November, Asstechnica’s edition, referring to the application of the Federal Communications Commission for the United States, reported that the first prototypes of spacecraft of the Kuiper global Internet system from Amazon, which will be a competitor to Starlink, must be launched in the fourth quarter of 2022. Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2 satellites are planned to withdraw from a mobile starting plant in Florida, a non-flying RS1 rocket developed by ABL SPACE Systems with the support of Lockheed Martin, an near-ease orbit with a height of 590 kilometers.