All Starlink sats will deorbit in under 5 years if unmaintained, please get a basic understanding of orbital mechanics before repeating nonsense like this. Edi

All Starlink sats will deorbit in under 5 years if unmaintained, please get a basic understanding of orbital mechanics before repeating nonsense like this. Edit: And shame on Scientific American for spreading the same nonsense. Also Starlink has automated collision avoidance systems that make them even less likely to collide than most sats currently in orbit, see the comments on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/p7c96z/spacex_starlink_satellites_responsible_for_over/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/p7c96z/spacex_starli...