An absurd rendering of Cowboy Space's satellites. Which apparently sprout from rockets and then deploy absolutely fucking enormous solar panels in a star pattern.

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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 01:32:14 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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   This company also posted an ex parte filing (which means they had a super special extra FCC meeting), their satellites are too fucking huge to even be physically possible. They just can't fucking do this.

   My estimate from looking at this ridiculous sketch is 8x60x10m solar panels... that's a reflecting area of 4800 m^2. The International Space Station, the biggest thing in orbit, has a solar panel area of about 3400 m^2.