Starlink satellites are deliberately designed to leak radio emissions & to lack longevity.
No one considers whether this is deliberate.
Play along with this thought experiment: military & economic strategy.
1. A satellite with built-in obsolescence & then it joins an increasingly dense miasma of near-Earth space junk, becomes a navigational hazard for every other space-capable competitor.
Musk has incited riots to hurt competitors
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/ford-toyota-halt-production-protesters-block-us-canada-border/100820532
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