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Elon hasn't successfully deployed a satellite since March. Over 1200 inactive satellites according to space-track.org and satellitemap.space. Yahoo now reports SpaceX willing to sell shares. (tiblur.com)
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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yay more space trash in earth orbit

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kessler Syndrome! Let's Go!

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully, these things are at least too low to stay in orbit indefinitely like that

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Almost as if people thought ahead about this stuff.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Wild concept, that planning ahead thing is

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At LEAST it's low orbit so it'll burn up (relatively) quickly.

[–] krimson@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Does it burn up completely? Nothing gets left behind?

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

We're only now starting to try and ensure spacecraft are designed in such a way that they completely break up.

Shape/size/material all have an impact on whether something completely breaks up

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/Design_for_demise_bringing_spacecraft_down_safely_and_efficiently

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's part of a Dragon capsule, not a Starlink satellite.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

ah. my bad.

[–] decerian@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

After a few years the orbit will degrade enough that it'll start to fall back to earth. At that point, the satellite will either burn up completely on re-entry, or partially and the rest will fall to earth.

Either way, each of these satellites will be completely gone from orbit after a few years.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 0 points 4 months ago

Hard to say, but with how few sizeable chunks of natural stone/metal meteors make it through it's tough to expect some relatively fragile satellites would survive the trip down.