Oh, nice. During my stint in CA, we took a swing by SpaceX and got the schpiel on that, the Starship, and a bunch of other cool info. Those Starlink birds are straight up disposable, as they become obsolete every couple of years, so they de-orbit/replace them so you don't end up with Hughesnet-like performance down the road.
Getting the F' Outta Dodge.
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Oh, nice. During my stint in CA, we took a swing by SpaceX and got the schpiel on that, the Starship, and a bunch of other cool info. Those Starlink birds are straight up disposable, as they become obsolete every couple of years, so they de-orbit/replace them so you don't end up with Hughesnet-like performance down the road.
The ground was so hard I almost used expansion lugs. They would have held until the thaw. Then we'd have a flying saucer the second the wind kicked up.
Oh great, wishing upon a Falling Starlink!
They're not that big. They totally defy the traditional approach to building a satellite. In the past, it was spendy to put stuff up. It still is, but SpaceX has definitely brought the cost down as they don't have to launch on someone else's rocket. Starship is supposed to reduce the cost even further. A lot further. We'll see, they've done well so far. And with that I'll dismount Elon Musk's nuts@ck.
What you probably don't realize is that my day job is being an Active Duty Space Force nerd. But I'm a weird one, 99% of these nerds are allergic to grease and wrenches.
If the bandwidth proves consistent, it would be nice to unfund Comcast. I laugh at all those 'cutting the cord' only to find out that their ISP is a cable company. 
Well, you certainly are logging the miles back and forth between Colorado and California. I should go back and reread "what did you do at work today?" thread...
aren't they all 100% transferred from the Air Force? I haven't seen any Space Force recruiting offices popping up or seen any advertising for enlisting.
Marines: “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.”
Army: "Be All You Can Be"
Navy: “It’s not just a job, it’s an adventure”
Air Force: “Aim High”
Space Force: "Are you allergic to grease and wrenches?" 🤣
I was selected by a board to attend a class in CA. It was a pretty cool experience.
It's f'in weird. USSF took like 99% of the USAF space guys like myself. They also took Intel, engineers, comm nerds, but rely on a lot of USAF bodies for support functions. We're a dept of the AF like the Marines are a dept of the Navy.
