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

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

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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 11 months ago
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: Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    That’s a lot, but also not really at the same time. There’s actually quite a bit of stuff that deorbits every day. These are entire satellites, not pieces. And this is exactly what they’re meant to do, as opposed to staying in space as debris.

    Today, there are 36,000 objects larger than 10 cm in space, of which 30,000 are catalogued and 6,000 are not referenced.

    In 2023, there were 2,800 new entries into orbit and 2,000 exits.

    https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/space/the-proliferation-of-space-debris-in-the-earths-orbit/

  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
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    Wait why am I feeling guilty for throwing away single use containers

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