NASA have said they are "worried" that Elon Musk may be launching too many satellites.The billionaire owner of carmaker Tesla and space exploration company SpaceX plans to deploy about 30,000 satellites for his Starlink satellite project, which would give broadband internet access to most people on Earth.The firm had previously received authorisation for about 12,000 satellites to go up into space — but now NASA boffins are worried that the orbiting structures could get in the way of future space missions.
Writing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) telecommunications regulator, the space agency said: "NASA has concerns with the potential for a significant increase in the frequency of conjunction events and possible impacts to NASA’s science and human spaceflight missions."Making their worries about SpaceX clear, they added that SpaceX’s Gen2 expansion "would more than double the number of tracked objects in orbit and increase the number of objects below 600 km over five-fold".
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