Impossible claim with no evidence offered - curious why this is on the front page.

It will require a number of innovations just to solve the formation flying aspect of the system, not to mention the other challenges (listed and not)... good luck with that.

Right, but they're flying them close on purpose - point is, at first glance it looks feasible and the close formation aspect has enough benefits that it's worth exploring further. For me, it's the first time I saw the idea to exploit constellations for benefit within the system (here, communication between satellites), and not externally (synthetic aperture telescopes/beaming, or just more = lower orbit = cheaper).

What sort of formation are you thinking of? They’re all going to be hugging the terminator, like a big merry go round.

There are a couple interesting-sounding claims made here but there is basically no detail to be found, which strikes me as odd at best and suspicious at worst.

Yeah it's a bit odd. I can get a sense of what they might be doing and perhaps it's a compelling product but no where near enough info to go on, let alone reserve one for $99 and later buy at $1999.

I've been using Instapaper for many years to collect things to read later, and I use Pinboard to archive things that I've read and want to save.

I was kind of hoping for a deep-dive on notebook types and features, not gonna lie.

*The problem with modern software engineering

Boeing's Starliner team would like a word.

Actually a lot of teams at Boeing would like a word.

The claimed principle, if true might apply to other types of projects besides software.

The article (glorified ad piece), however, is entirely about software engineering.

The paper in question is here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40295-024-00458-3

It adds to a pretty large body of literature around this subject, the gist of which is "risk is going up, but we don't really have a good way of estimating what that means in terms of actual collision rates".

Astrodynamics

The most likely options are that it was struck by debris or that there was an explosion onboard. Those two are not mutually exclusive, either.

This has been an indispensable resource in my career, to the point that I will frequently search for "<topic of interest> gunter", knowing that he'll have the best collection of information available openly.