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Indeed, working as intended. SpaceX said at the beginning that this was how they would “clean up” older gen sats.
by reactordev 1y ago
Indeed, working as intended. SpaceX said at the beginning that this was how they would “clean up” older gen sats.
- gitaarik 1y agoIs this a common approach? Seems strange this happens on such a scale now without much scrutiny.
- reactordev 1y agoAs common as Starlink is… no one has sent that many satellites into space and before they even got approval, this was discussed at length. They would fire retrograde and deorbit, burning them up in the atmospheric re-entry. https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_S...