The Space Force already tracks satellites (and debris). I imagine this is more of an improvement for small debris such as bolts, etc.

It's not.

If you're familiar with the technical specs, I'd be interested in hearing what size of objects the star trackers can sense and at what range. In theory the fancier star trackers can see objects around 10 cm diameter hundreds of kilometers away, without needing to worry about a pesky atmosphere [1], but I don't know how sensitive the sensors on Starlink's current generation satellites are, and this web site isn't saying.

They're mostly touting the improvement in latency over existing tracking, from delays measured in hours to ones measured in minutes. Which is very nice, of course, but the lack of other technical detail is mildly frustrating.

[1] https://www.mit.edu/~hamsa/pubs/ShtofenmakherBalakrishnan-IA...

NASA tracks debris 10cm or larger. They also detect and statistically estimate debris as small as 3mm in LEO.

This is my source, from 2021 fwiw: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/ig-21-0...

10cm is huge, that could even be a functioning 1U cubesat.

So it looks to be just the latency improvement that's noteworthy, then. Thank you!

Maybe coverage, too?

It got downvoted because it had no info about why you claimed there was no improvement.

SpaceX wouldn’t waste money developing a system that had no improvement over what space force already offers.

They would if they could bilk more taxpayer money for it.

Note from analysis in the paper: (CST = Commercial Star Tracker, for which they model several common ones flown on satellites)

>From Fig. 1, it is clear that many typical CSTs can be used to detect debris with characteristic length less than 10 cm at distances as far as roughly 50 km. These same sensors have the potential to detect debris as small as 1 cm in diameter as far as 5 km away. Even space-limited CubeSats using nanosatellite-class CSTs can detect 10-cm-class debris at roughly 25 km away or 1-cm-class debris at a distance of 2.5 km. Higher-performing imagers like the MOST telescope can further characterize orbital debris of 10 cm diameter as far as 400 km away or be used to characterize orbital debris smaller than 1 cm at ranges not exceeding 40 km.

Probably used their product to write it

Probably stems from the safety guardrails

"The gpt-audio model is our first generally available audio model. It accepts audio inputs and outputs, and can be used in the Chat Completions REST API."

gpt-audio pricing (1M):

text input $2.50, text output $10.00

audio input $32.00, audio output $64.00

gpt-audio-mini pricing (1M):

text input $0.60, text output $2.40

audio input $10.00, audio output $20.00

WSJ says you’ll be able to choose between keeping your savings account at Goldman or switching it to Chase.

> If we can hand-off any JS functionality to native HTML or CSS, then users can download less stuff, and the remaining JS can pay attention to more important tasks that HTML and CSS can't handle (yet).

Breaking even is more attractive than debt for a cash-strapped city

And it gives them more eyes than they hoped for by “going nuclear.”

From the author’s GitHub bio:

‘One of the most captivating aspects of AI models like GPT-4 is their ability to "hallucinate" – generating completely new ideas and concepts that go beyond mere data processing. This capability underscores AI's potential to create, not just analyze.’

‘My projects represent this space, a space of infinite possibilities only one step removed from reality.’

Rather honest I suppose.

Is there an enemy invader actively performing military operations inside the country? In that case, I believe it’s typical for a nation to suspend its normal procedures, we don’t need our principle to hold in case of active invasion.

Otherwise, just don’t do war. It’s pretty simple. Especially when you have zero need for land.

Witness protection is a compensation for an inadequate and overly soft criminal justice system. If the person calling the hit fully expected to die by hanging for calling the hit, he would not call the hit.