“with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks”
How does that work with a 560 km orbit? A 1 kg 0.1 m² fragment would take 6 years from a rough calculation.
[https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/](https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/)
koos_die_doos on
> One of Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet satellites suffered an “anomaly” on Sunday while in orbit around Earth, the company said in a social media post. The incident appears to have created some debris, with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks, according to LeoLabs, a company that monitors satellites in low-Earth orbit.
It suffered a RUD, will be interesting to see how long the debris stays in orbit. It supposedly de orbits in a maximum of 5 years.
FluffyBunnyFlipFlops on
Kessler syndrome, here we come! Saving the galaxy from humans.
unrulycelt on
Hopefully this is not the space version of Russians falling out of windows
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“with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks”
How does that work with a 560 km orbit? A 1 kg 0.1 m² fragment would take 6 years from a rough calculation.
[https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/](https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/)
> One of Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet satellites suffered an “anomaly” on Sunday while in orbit around Earth, the company said in a social media post. The incident appears to have created some debris, with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks, according to LeoLabs, a company that monitors satellites in low-Earth orbit.
It suffered a RUD, will be interesting to see how long the debris stays in orbit. It supposedly de orbits in a maximum of 5 years.
Kessler syndrome, here we come! Saving the galaxy from humans.
Hopefully this is not the space version of Russians falling out of windows
do they have onboard propellant?
It’s that fucking stupid haircut I know it.