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Debris left in orbits below 600 km normally fall back to Earth within several years. The Starlink constellation is at around 350 km and below.


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You are right, it looks like I got a mistaken number from the Reddit (who could have predicted that).

It says here that earlier this year Starlink was seeking permission to go lower. I wonder how that went.

https://universemagazine.com/en/below-the-iss-orbit-starlink...


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Don't look for cold sense in mr musk's adventures, just look at whole twitter saga. He is a overgrown child with brilliant mind but very little control of his emotions (on top or other real mental issues under variable control). My almost-5 year old son has in some aspects more emotional maturity than him.

Doesn't mean that stuff ain't truth of course, but his recent conservative alignment has deeply personal reasons too.




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