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15He does so for good reason: There are more than 9,000 satellites orbiting the Earth right now and by 2030 there will be an estimated 60,000. And while the earth’s orbit is huge, it’s already home to a lot of junk that can interfere with a $300 billion space economy that provides communications, weather information and global positioning information to the world below.
With Elon Musk’s Starlink planning to launch at least another 4,000 more into orbit and Shanghai Spacecom Satellite beginning construction of a 12,000 satellite constellation of its own, Blackerby, COO of orbital services startup Astroscale, has a lot on his mind. And the rate at which the number of objects in the skies is growing makes it more pressing, he added. It’s something he wouldn’t have thought about a decade ago, when there were fewer than 1,200 active satellites in orbit.
“When Astroscale started almost 11 years ago,” he said, “I was working for NASA and I was like, ‘Who’s going to make money off of this? Nobody’s thinking about that.”
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Chris Blackerby spends a lot of time thinking about junk — specifically, “space junk” or “cosmic debris.”
He does so for good reason: There are more than 9,000 satellites orbiting the Earth right now and by 2030 there will be an estimated 60,000. And while the earth’s orbit is huge, it’s already home to a lot of junk that can interfere with a $300 billion space economy that provides communications, weather information and global positioning information to the world below.
With Elon Musk’s Starlink planning to launch at least another 4,000 more into orbit and Shanghai Spacecom Satellite beginning construction of a 12,000 satellite constellation of its own, Blackerby, COO of orbital services startup Astroscale, has a lot on his mind. And the rate at which the number of objects in the skies is growing makes it more pressing, he added. It’s something he wouldn’t have thought about a decade ago, when there were fewer than 1,200 active satellites in orbit.
“When Astroscale started almost 11 years ago,” he said, “I was working for NASA and I was like, ‘Who’s going to make money off of this? Nobody’s thinking about that.”
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3 years ago
When OpenAI unveiled its latest AI system, Sora, last month, capable of generating video, images and screenplays with simple text prompts, reactions spanned from awe to alarm. No one was more vocal in their concern than Tyler Perry, the entertainment mogul behind the famous Madea franchise.
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3 years ago