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Starlink satellites are mostly put into deliberately low orbits to guarantee they degrade over the course of a few years and burn up in the atmosphere. This is
by mdorazio 7y ago
Starlink satellites are mostly put into deliberately low orbits to guarantee they degrade over the course of a few years and burn up in the atmosphere. This is not at all the same as putting the same number of normal LEO satellites in orbit from a space junk perspective.