Comment on Good News! Public tracking data used by defense contractors from space-track.org now officially shows Elon has lost over 5% of his fleet in 2 months. He can no longer keep up with launches.

• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The low orbital altitude of Starlink satellites prevents them from being a Kessler concern, when they don't do active station keeping they fall out of orbit in a matter of a few years.

  If you really think Starlink is "absurd" then just ignore it, it needs to be economically viable for SpaceX to keep launching them so if it turns out not to be it'll be a self-correcting problem.

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