„with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks“
How does that work with a 560 km orbit? A 1 kg 0.1 m² fragment would take 6 years from a rough calculation.
[https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/](https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/)
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> One of Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet satellites suffered an “anomaly” on Sunday while in orbit around Earth, the company said in a social media post. The incident appears to have created some debris, with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks, according to LeoLabs, a company that monitors satellites in low-Earth orbit.
It suffered a RUD, will be interesting to see how long the debris stays in orbit. It supposedly de orbits in a maximum of 5 years.
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Kessler syndrome, here we come! Saving the galaxy from humans.
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Hopefully this is not the space version of Russians falling out of windows
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„with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks“
How does that work with a 560 km orbit? A 1 kg 0.1 m² fragment would take 6 years from a rough calculation.
[https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/](https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/)
> One of Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet satellites suffered an “anomaly” on Sunday while in orbit around Earth, the company said in a social media post. The incident appears to have created some debris, with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks, according to LeoLabs, a company that monitors satellites in low-Earth orbit.
It suffered a RUD, will be interesting to see how long the debris stays in orbit. It supposedly de orbits in a maximum of 5 years.
Kessler syndrome, here we come! Saving the galaxy from humans.
Hopefully this is not the space version of Russians falling out of windows