Comment on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate

SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

They are in low orbit and meant to de-orbit at eol. It is better they do that than stay up there really. The article throws out a lot of fear mongering language then at least it follows up with the reasons it isn’t a problem mostly. Except they make it sound like these sattelites are hitting the ground , but really just some kind of space debree hits the ground. These are made to burn up and only one piece has ever been proven to hit the ground. That does mean it’s possible, but still unlikely.

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