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Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn't a trick question - SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. What that means for our planet isn't entirely clear, says Harvard astrophysicist and space tracker Jonathan McDowell. Even so, Starlink isn't the space junk risk that some other satellite operations are. McDowell commented on the massive volume of reen...

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