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 adding to the swarm 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 answer to 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.
- One to two Starlink satellites are falling daily.
- There could soon be as many as five daily de-orbits.
- Other companies, such as Amazon and Kuiper, will add to the total number of satellites.
- Chinese systems are predicted to add another 20,000 satellites.
Author's summary: SpaceX's satellites are falling daily, adding to space junk.