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turbinetree

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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 05:24 PM Friday

Just think two satellites a day are falling from low orbit space...............

Orbital Bombardment
Elon Musk’s Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Look out!
By Frank Landymore
Published Oct 8, 2025 10:12 AM EDT

Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up.

According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one or two of these Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day, he recently told EarthSky. And that figure, McDowell warned, is only going to keep climbing.

The alarming statistic underscores the concerns around rapidly populating the planet’s Low Earth Orbit with expendable satellites. Musk’s SpaceX has been launching thousands of them up there using his reusable rockets since 2019, with more than 8,000 currently in operation.

https://futurism.com/space/elon-musks-satellites-falling

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