Short lived space junk is not the problem and is never what astronomer/engineers talk about when they say space junk is a problem.

I clearly explained why ChatGPT was wrong the first time. Wtf are you talking about?

All I'm saying is that you can't take GPT answers at face value. Why are you guys being so fucking annoying?

Why people decide to be idiotic assholes on the internet I'll never know.

Enjoy your bad information my guy.

Fuck should I know, ask an orbital physicist.

My whole point is that the answer to a question like that is too complicated to just ask chatGPT..

If you can't answer that question yourself, then you shouldn't be using it like that.

It's definitely wrong though. The thruster claims to produce 52mN of thrust using a watt. So even if you assume that this efficiency scales linearly to 1000W (which it certainly doesn't), that equates to 52N of force for a 100kg object, or an acceleration of 0.52m/s^2. Accelerating a 100kg object with an initial velocity of 8km/s at 0.52m/s^2 for two days give a total distance travelled of ~ 9.1 million km. The average distanfe between Earth and Mars is 225 million kilometers, or over 20 times that distance travelled.

But even more importantly, chatGPT failed to capture the complexity of otbital dynamics. You can't just fly straight to Mars, you have to complete complex orbital maneuvers that require precise timing sometimes on the order of days, weeks, or even months. See the Hoffman Transfer Orbit for example.

So please, be careful in the future. ChatGPT shouldn't replace critical thinking.

You cannot trust chatGPT with calculations/information you don't understand/don't know how to verify.

It's an amazing tool but that is not how its meant to be used

Depends on the kind of contract

Ahhh yes, the most successful space company by a large margin, who launches more payload into space than the rest of the world combined, who are testing the biggest rocket ever created which happens to be fully reusable, is becoming a bigger joke everyday.

Critical thinking, my guy.

Their starlink support isn't waning whatsoever by the way, they're just not allowing ukraine to put starlink on weaponized drones. They can still use it the exact same way they've been for the whole invasion.