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Old 02-06-2025, 01:33 PM   #5340
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff View Post
"The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day."

Is this good? This doesnt seem good
They are quite small so I assume they would completely burn up on re-entry? If that is the case it seems relatively harmless, and better than the alternative of leaving them in orbit.
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