Post #3517369
2025-02-26 12:39 UTC
"We now have enough Starlink reentries to use the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis estimator to determine the median Starlink operational lifetime: 5.3 years. This mixes together V1 and V2M Starlinks."
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@fj@mastodon.social 2025-05-04 20:54
"Falling satellites in 2022 produced about 17 tons of alumina, a 30% increase over natural levels. Fully realized “mega-constellations” of 550-pound satellites, which might be 30% aluminum, could add 360 tons a year, likely enough to harm the ozone layer.” https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellites-pollution/