China begins launching a megaconstellation, and it sounds a lot like Starlink

Like Starlink, China's Qianfan satellites have an easy-to-pack flat-panel design.

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too bad all the satellites constantly being deorbited is filling near-space with metal dust that will disrupt the earth’s magnetic field and cause the atmosphere to be stripped away by solar winds….
- You dont understand, it is vitally important to our petty geopolitics that everyone has their own satellites, who gives a shit about long term habitability when there are short term power plays and profits to be made
  
  Exactly this. And it's not like deorbiting satellites could contribute to climate change.
  Doing research before sending tens of thousand of them is for crybabies anyway. /s