SpaceX ‘WasteX’ Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth

  • schloppah@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What will that look like in the sky? I saw a starlink cluster pass over me last year. It was stunning to see in person, but if it was like that all the time you’d never be able to see the stars.

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      3 months ago

      If you saw a cluster then you saw a new deployment. They become less visible as they raise to their final orbit and change orientation.

      The bigger problem is rumblings about how much aluminum dust their disintegration causes when they are deorbited and how much greenhouse effect that could cause. Probably not enough to make a difference but it’s. Something to consider and mitigate as much as possible.