Jeden Tag fallen ein bis zwei Starlink-Satelliten auf die Erde zurück
1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
Jeden Tag fallen ein bis zwei Starlink-Satelliten auf die Erde zurück
1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
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This is to be expected. They have a life span of 5-7 years and should just burn up on reentry
Exactly the way they were intended to operate. Perfect, thanks.
This is due to the low orbit that Starlink operates in, for a normal constellation this would be a problem, but 1-2 a day is a rounding error when they are launching hundreds of satellites per month.
This is actually a good thing for such a large constellation as it prevents a kessler syndrome style worst case scenario from happening as all the debris would burn up within a few months or so at most.
The current Starlink satellites are built to completely burn up before any part of them can reach the ground so the main side effect to the general public is an increased amount of „shooting stars“ and UFO reports.
Couple this with Starship explosions raining debris down all over the planet and Spacex is a ballistic object menace, attacking willy nilly without remorse. Yikes!
I mean, this is to be expected given the design philosophy of small satellites like the starling cluster uses.
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When they reach the goal of 42000 they want in orbit, it will be about 20 each day that de-orbit. Meaning they will need to launch one starship about every 3 days to keep the number of satellites above 40k
At least the third time this has been posted this week. It isn’t that interesting.