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    Ein weiterer Starlink-Satellit ist aus unerklärlichen Gründen explodiert

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    2. NewsCards on

      > SpaceX suffered a similar episode in December when it suddenly lost communications with a satellite that also seemingly exploded. That incident occurred just a week after a near miss with a Chinese satellite.

      > The latest mishap occurred at about 560km above the Earth, an increasingly crowded area known as low Earth orbit where over 24,000 objects, including debris and about 10,000 Starlink satellites, are currently being tracked.

      Anyone else uncomfortable with the fact that we’re covering up our planet with a field of space garbage colliding into each other, creating even more little bits of space garbage and so on?

    5. McMacHack on

      Elon was probably told this would happen but disagreed and told the engineers to push past it and launch anyway

    10. John_Bot on

      For being r/technology everyone in the comments are incredibly tech illiterate

    12. WardenWolf on

      The Starlink satellites are deliberately placed in too-low an orbit to trigger Kessler Syndrome. They are designed for a relatively short lifespan and have to constantly be reboosted with their own thrusters to avoid burning up within mere weeks or months. Basically, every single one of them could go boom and the problem would self-resolve within a couple months.

    15. Own_Maize_9027 on

      I always wondered why we don’t have a “whatever goes up must first bring down policy.” If a company wants to put something in orbit, it must collect a certain quota of space junk-debris. Like a pre-clean-up tax.

    16. theoreoman on

      The only good thing is that Kessler syndrome would be very temporary with everything in starlinks orbit.

    17. hc37_126 on

      we are literally letting this one dude build a cage around the earth that won’t let us out eventually at this rate

    18. Highsmith777 on

      I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a whole „satellite war“ going on.

    21. MentalDisintegrat1on on

      I remember he said these things have a expiration date and they are supposed to destroy themselves or something like that. I wonder if this is that.

    22. trash-juice on

      It was always space junk, and now its gonna create more space junk … Junk Link

    24. got-trunks on

      It’s a good thing they are trying a manned moon mission while they are reporting this kind of thing happening. April fools this year could have some wild news we only find out the next day.

    25. KarlraK on

      Just like the new kitchen appliances. Made to last only five years for repeat sales.

    26. sevargmas on

      I fucking hate it when people link to paywalled articles. Can someone please paste the entire article?

    27. Bubble_Pop on

      Did anyone else just remember that James Bond movie where the one space ship would like eat the others and kidnap the astronauts???

    29. Smith6612 on

      If I were to take a guess, the Space Satellite version of r/spicybricks probably happened.

    30. Soberdonkey69 on

      Because Musk is involved with SpaceX and wants to absorb so much more wealth, I want SpaceX to fail. I just hope another space company not run by evil billionaires can replace it in the future. But that optimism is quite small.

    31. Spirited-Lifeguard55 on

      Lots more space debris hurtling around Earth so much that even Aliens dare not visit.

    33. Igotdaruns on

      What about clogging up our upper atmosphere with microscopic incinerated satellite debris? That can’t be good.

    35. KevinsLunchbox on

      All this means is that billionaires who wish to fly away to a new planet on ships built just for them will encounter space junk the size of a bolt and implode and it’ll be cool

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