SpaceX’s Satellites Are Falling From the Sky Every Single Day
If Starlink continues scaling up operations, there could be as many as five of these satellites raining down on us daily.
Here’s what you need to know: Starlink constellations are contributing to the growing amount of space junk in low-Earth orbit.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s... probably a hunk of trash metal from yet another de-orbited Starlink satellite burning up in the atmosphere.
While the SpaceX initiative for affordable worldwide internet may not be the worst threat to our part of the cosmos, one to two of their 8,000 satellites are already falling back to Earth every single day.
- Currently, 1-2 satellites fall daily.
- Predicted 5 daily de-orbits once 30,000 satellites are in orbit.
- Chinese systems may add another 20,000 satellites.
Author's summary: SpaceX satellites are falling daily, adding to space junk.
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