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by youngtaff 1873 days ago
It's quite interesting how frequently Starlink satellites de-orbit (and how short a time some of them are up for)

https://aerospace.org/reentries?field_reentry_type_target_id...

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Looks like some de-orbit in months! There must be a quite a lot of calibration/testing going on and I can’t imagine how expensive this endeavor must be. I am curious about the failure rate of these satellites at that orbit.