Starcloud's whitepaper downplays debris risk with the (dubious and mostly irrelevant) claim* SSO is underutilized. They now want to put 88,000 satellites in 600-850 km SSO, which is *checks notes* approximately 6 times the current total number of active satellites in space
https://www.pcmag.com/news/data-center-space-race-heats-up-as-starcloud-startup-requests-88000-satellites
* https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/115489897364339232
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