SpaceX says its satellites will disintegrate upon atmospheric reentry and won't pose a risk to other space-based equipment.
Approximately 80% of the Starlink satellites launched last week are at risk of plunging back through the atmosphere or have already done so, according to SpaceX. The company says a geomagnetic storm prevented the satellites from rising up to their operational orbits.February 3 atop a Falcon 9 rocket. All 49 satellites reached their intended preliminary orbits some 130 miles above the surface and each achieved controlled flight.
The geomagnetic storm had a profound effect on this batch, as upwards of 40 satellites “will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere,” SpaceX said, adding that “deorbiting satellites pose zero collision risk with other satellites and by design demise upon atmospheric reentry—meaning no orbital debris is created and no satellite parts hit the ground.”
Each Starlink satellite weighs approximately 573 pounds . To date, SpaceX has launched over 2,000 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, forming an interconnected network that provides broadband internet to paying customers on the surface.
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