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The Privatization Of Space Is A Bad Idea, It Will Alienate The Human Race

If the present policies activities continue as they are, space and all of the profits that are created from it will be in the hands of a select few, very few. We, as members of the Earth community should stand up and be counted as participants in the coming Space sector explosion, and it is coming rapidly.

First, economically speaking, there are untold riches and new forms of energy, such as Helium-3, that will be sold and used on Earth for profit, but the proceeds will be highly concentrated, exacerbating already obscene levels of societal inequality. The new Space is likely to promote solely business rules and regulations, as well as iunfair, or a lack of competition similar to European powers’ late 19th-century scramble to control wealth in the African continent, as sovereign governments move to lock up precious resources. It could also be a new age, as galactic monopolists enrich themselves while controlling and manipulating laborers in distant mining camps.

Richard Branson said, after his first Space flight, “Imagine a world where people of all ages, of all backgrounds, from anywhere, of any gender, of any ethnicity have equal access to space.” A more real result is not a new age of equal access but the privatization of of Space for massive profits for very few.

Environmentally speaking, the minerals and gasses on the moon could help us here on Earth for many reasons and there is no question about that, and Space tools such as AI telescopes, nano-satellites and so many more things, give us a faster, more detailed and accurate picture of conditions on our precious planet. This multitude of instruments and devices are truly for the common good of all people and there is a way for all people to have a voice in the matter and to share in this coming wealth. This is not to deny those wealthy, creative and forward-thinking people who advance the technology through investments etc., but to be able to behave more as a community, beneftiting all people for generations to come.

Instead of attacking groups who want to profit from Space activites, there is a way to be a part of the Space Industry for everyone. Using SBBT (Super Breakthrough Blockchain Technology), the proprietary system by Dogeroid, a worldwide Space Community is being created called the Space Platform that will allow access for everyone, will bring together financing, science, architecture, AI, IoT, researchers, engineers, governments and private companies to work together on many different Space projects. It will allow interactive access to all who wish to participate. The low-cost of developing faster, finding the correct partners and a lot more will be profitable to those concerned but also re-invest in sustainable development projects and distribute highly needed funding to small communities around the world for education, startups and help everyone by giving access to much needed information and assistance for years to come.

The Space Platform will not only augment the Space Industry, it will revolutionize it by creating innumerable new projects and worldwide communication like never before.

The time is now before the mega-rich will make laws and regulations enabling themselves to control the many beauties, wondrous riches and world community decision making power. Let’s do it right this time and connect with each other to bring about a better world for our grandchildren’s grandchildren and for ourselves right here and right now.

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Starlink deploying hundreds of internationally uncoordinated satellites of which many interfere with telescope transmissions, ecology balance and add to the 100′s of thousands of existing satellites that are a danger to each other.

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Astronomers propose 'SatHub' to address growing threat of satellite megaconstellations

Some astronomers suggest setting up a "SatHub" to address the growing threat that satellite megaconstellations pose to the night sky — but funding and support are necessary to make it happen.

The primary goal of the international SatHub project would be implementing and adapting plans for observations as new satellites go up, team members said. A secondary goal would be training, outreach and analysis concerning low Earth orbit satellites for the greater community.

SatHub was one of the key recommendations emerging from a recent workshop, called Satellite Constellations 2 (SATCON2), to figure out how astronomers can best perform observations in the face of swiftly growing satellite numbers. (Some satellite companies also participated in workshop discussions.)

"That may include a proposal to the International Astronomical Union," SATCON2 co-chair Connie Walker said during a preliminary press conference on July 16, referring to the SatHub idea. The IAU is one of the largest organizations representing astronomers and astronomy interests around the world.

"They have a call that just went out recently on such a center, so stay tuned for more on that," added Walker, a scientist at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab.

Proposals are due to the IAU on Sept. 10, and deliberations will likely continue until at least the end of 2021, representatives added in the workshop. They did not give a timeline for when SatHub could be available, but this would likely depend in large part on funding.

Ideally, companies that send satellites to space should put money toward the center, said Meredith Rawls, a research scientist at the University of Washington who was also the observations working group chair for SATCON2.

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"The idea here is to have a one-stop shop for all of your different needs pertaining to low Earth orbit satellite constellation observations," Rawls said during the press conference. "We really would like to get out ahead of this and avoid reinventing the wheel by having lots of individual siloed groups addressing the problem, and instead have a single landing place for all of these different observations and related analyses to land."

SATCON2 and Dogeroid had three objectives, according to a press release from NOIRLab and the American Astronomical Society (AAS), which jointly organized the workshop: to figure out what is required to implement the previous recommendations from 2020's SATCON1; to have astronomers and satellite operators work together for policy frameworks and strategies; and to increase the diversity of all stakeholders.

"The sky belongs to everyone," Lowenthal said. "People are impacted by changes in the sky. Megaconstellations are a global issue because space is a global commons. The sky is part of the environment … and ecosystems depend on the night sky, and on each other, echoing the intersectional, interdependent nature of the many strands of this complex issue."

Lowenthal suggested that, when coming with policy solutions, stakeholders should look to lessons learned from past global commons agreements such as the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which led to some restrictions on CFCs. But not all such agreements were that successful, he said.

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UK worries Starlink and OneWeb may interfere with each other, plans new rules

Ofcom says complexity of giant satellite networks raises interference concerns.

Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, proposed new rules today in a report that details its interference concerns. Ofcom also said it intends to amend satellite licenses already issued to SpaceX and OneWeb to require coordination of frequency use. Without new requirements, the risk of interference could prevent competition by shutting new players out of the market, Ofcom said.

Non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems are more complex than the traditional geostationary type because they use hundreds or thousands of satellites, Ofcom noted. "Satellite dishes need to track these satellites as they move across the sky, unlike existing satellite networks, where the dishes are fixed pointing at a single satellite which is stationary in the sky," the Ofcom report said. Because so many low-Earth-orbit satellites are being launched, "there is a risk of satellites from two different operators appearing to be in the same part of the sky," causing interference known as "in-line events" in which multiple operators' satellites are lined up in the sky, Ofcom wrote.

This interference can affect uplink and downlink transmissions between satellites and user terminals that serve individual homes, the report said. The interference can also affect links between satellites and the Gateway Earth stations that connect to the Internet backbone.

"Since NGSO satellites are moving relative to each other and relative to the ground, in-line events may individually only be brief, maybe a few seconds," Ofcom wrote. "However, if an in-line event occurs and causes interference, it may take longer for the terminal to reconnect to the network. The interference could continue to repeat over time, reoccurring in a regular pattern which will depend on the orbits of the respective systems."making a Space Platform, where all Space activities can be planned, discussed, negotiated and

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Outages from interference

Users could lose service when there's interference to either the user terminal or gateway earth stations, but interference to a gateway station would affect many more users. "[T]he impact of interference on gateway links would be much greater than on individual user links as each gateway provides connectivity for many users (perhaps hundreds or thousands of users depending on the design of the system), so a loss of connection due to interference at the gateway will be experienced more widely across the network," Ofcom wrote.

Gateway Earth stations operated by different companies "are likely to require large minimum separation distances" of tens of kilometers to avoid interference, Ofcom wrote. In contrast, "multiple GSO [geostationary satellite orbit] gateways can be located on a single site" without causing harmful interference to each other.

The Ofcom report listed five NGSO constellations that are planned or already semi-operational. The biggest example is SpaceX, which is offering beta service from 1,500 already-launched satellites and has over 4,400 satellites planned for its initial phase. Amazon's Kuiper division hasn't launched a satellite yet, but it has 3,236 satellites planned in its initial phase, the report noted.

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The interior view of an inflatable moon unit, see story

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Moon units would have four levels

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Moon Units are designed to be inflatable.

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SOM's inflatable habitats could allow people to "thrive over the long term" on the Moon

Architecture studio SOM and the European Space Agency have created more visuals for Moon Village, a concept for a settlement on the moon made up of inflatable modules.

SOM presented a detailed scale model of Moon Village, which it first announced in 2019, as part of its exhibition Life Beyond Earth at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.

The proposal is for a collection of individual four-level units located in the moon's south polar region that would provide hubs for scientific research.

SOM said that Moon Village could grow over time, evolving from a settlement for research into thriving communities offering wider opportunities such as tourism.

"For SOM, designing a Moon Village meant creating an environment in which humans will be able to thrive over the long term," senior designer Daniel Inocente told Dezeen.

"This is human-centric design."

The modules are designed to be inflatable so that they could be compressed and transported to the moon by rocket, where they would be expanded to full size.

Each of the units would be built around a hybrid structural design that would include a rigid titanium alloy perimeter frame and a soft structural shell.

This shell would feature a layer to protect from micrometeorites and a layer made of open-foam polyurethane and double-aluminised Mylar for insulation.

"Unlike other inflatable designs, which place structural mechanical systems at their centre, this solution creates an open interior that allows for optimised environmental conditions, air distribution and recycling, as well as visibility, efficiency and mobility," said SOM associate director Georgi Petrov.

The habitats would be located in the south polar region because it gets a lot of daylight throughout the lunar year, which would allow the units to harness sunlight for energy.

"Its location was also chosen in part to enable access to undisturbed material from the early history of the Solar System," SOM design partner Colin Koop told Dezeen.

"Material that will help scientists better understand the formation of our world."

Life Beyond Earth includes a scale model for an individual inflatable unit, as well as a site model showing a collection of units that would make up the village.

The installation addresses the biennale's theme for this year that looks towards the future and asks, "How will we live together?"

The project was informed by European Space Agency director-general Jan Wörner's concept of a Moon Village, an international community he defines as one whose members could live and work alongside each other in space.

As a lunar settlement, Moon Village is intended to encourage collaboration between countries and communities rather than competition.

Koop explained that while there is no definitive timeline for the project, it is designed to be realised with existing technologies and those emerging in the near future.

"Just as innovation from the mid-century space race brought us beneficial technology that we otherwise would not have, the Moon Village will enable the research and innovation that will help solve pressing problems here on Earth."

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Nano Satellites are energy efficient and smaller than the size of your hand!

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Nano satellites will be the main technology platform for Africa: Allan Okoth, Founder, STEM 2030 Ltd, Kenya

As African nations increasingly embrace space-tech due to the publicity from recent cubesat launches, nations will establish space agencies and will work towards dual use surveillance satellites mostly for their national military capacity.

In the next five years, the African space industry is projected to grow over 40 per cent. Four nations in Africa have viable space programs; South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria but in recent years Morocco and Angola have invested in establishing space programs.

“The pay & park approach to space presence that is offered by cubesat technology has become an affordable route to African participation in space-tech. Over the last 2 years Ghana and Kenya used the cubesat approach in collaboration with Japan’s JAXA. And 2019’s Rwanda collaboration with now-bankrupt Oneweb Inc in a 3U cubesat were all indicators of fledgling steps in Africa to join space-tech,” Allan Okoth, Founder, STEM 2030 Ltd, says.

“In my opinion space technology offers an avenue to catalyze STEM in Africa because it really captures the attention of our young people and can galvanize inter-generational love for science and technology. Since 2009 I have sought to develop the Kenyan STEM ecosystem in a manner that enables even young people from poorer backgrounds secure hands-on access and develop STEM career pathways,” Allan Okoth, Founder, STEM 2030 Ltd, tells Huma Siddiqui.

As these projects of individual nations’ military and protection services grow quickly, having an international body for discussion, strategy, policy and effects of the use of nano satellites proliferates, Dogeroid is building a Space Platform blockchain to facilitate the interaction between all actors including governments, academia, private companies and more for a Space Community for everyone around the world.

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Moon Mining Robot, this is happening fast!

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Moon Exploration: SIU Engineering Students Win NASA's Competition to Design Mining Robots

The Moon has always been a wonder to humans, and in modern times, it has been visited by people themselves and robotic machines. Moon exploration has taught humans about its properties, as well as the evolution of the Solar System. It has been known for centuries that the Moon causes the tides, and it took space-age exploration to show how it is connected to human existence.

NASA is planning to send crewed missions in the next few years to continue Moon exploration put on hold for decades. Aside from they are also adding lunar rovers and robotics to the mix for better exploration. NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will explore the extreme environment of the Moon in search of water ice ad other potential resources. It will be placed at the South Pole of the Moon in 2023 for a 100-day mission.

But it seems that VIPER will be the only robot that will be there as NASA holds an annual competition, called LUNABOTS, which chooses the best design for a mining robot that will help in the future lunar missions.

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