Hi

I just watched the excellent Wild Wild Space Documentary and as a non rocket nerd (I am a huge VR nerd) I was unaware of all three companies featured.  I am familiar wih Space X and it’s evil overlord, Blue Origin and it’s celebrity chasing dweeb and a bare blip of Virgin, and of course growing up with NASA - my high school year book cover featured a holographic pic of the moon landing as my hometown built one of the space capsules.  I have always been proud of humanity’s ventures into space and the tech it has spawned that has benefited and enriched our lives.  I truly thought we be living like the Jetsons by year 2000 and  not prepping for the Y2K apocalypse.  But some things have evolved quite fast and furious as noted in the film.

The insane privatization of low earth orbit space has sky rocketed (pun intended, sue me) and the race to send thousands more sats up there is concerning, to say he least, and rather horrifying as the competition for dominance / supremacy surges and sats proliferate.

This has a real possibility of spawning a destructive domino effect of space junk crashing into existing sats and creating more space junk, which will cause more crashes, more junk, more crashes, more junk and so on until it’s one big mine field and inevitably becomes the equivalent of an orbital landfill. And all this marvelous tech that we have become dependent on will be destroyed.  How that can be avoided seems impossible unless someone comes up with a real version of sci fi space trash collectors.  Recyclables.  :-)

That aside...

Of real, more immediate concern are abuses by Apartheid Clyde via his dominance/monopoly of Sat Comms tech.   I do recall when he at first lied about turning off Ukraine’s access to Starlink to favor Russia for a moment.  Then admitted to it.

No one ever ever ever should have that much unfettered and abusive control over Sat comm or any significant tech that we have become dependent on.  

So it led me to wonder why PL’s altruistic approach to documenting earth from space has not expanded into the arena of Sat Comm bc it would make perfect sense to marry your imaging sats with sat comms capabilities to bring total communication abilities to everyone on the planet with no political or evil villain agenda and free even, if possible.  It could rival, then surpass Starlink, leveling the playing filed and eliminating abusive control like what Apartheid Clyde pulled re Ukraine and insure that would never happen again.  It would save lives in natural disasters, help people stranded in remote locations,  and foster conversations that could unite rather than divide.

I have no clue how much this tech upgrade would cost to outfit the Dove sats with comms tech like that of Starlink or if it is at all possible but before the sky starts raining down sat body parts from the impending domino collisions, it could have one of the most important and positive impacts on the world if sat comm tech was dominated by a company with altruistic ideals.

So that is my idea - add sat comms tech to the Doves.  The new Dove - Coo versions. :-)

Also -- totes off topic - when signing up, your form does not have VR/Gaming/Arts/Entertainment as an industry  / business choices - a huge oversight so I went with Edu as I do Art & Edu projects in VR so maybe consider adding that/those categories.  Ironically I discovered you via HBO.