Subj : Great Starlink Reentry Ev
To   : MORTAR
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 09:45:08

>  > In just six months, SpaceX brought down a decade's worth of satellites,
>  > triggering one of the largest artificialinjections of metal into the
>  > atmosphere in spaceflight history.

> Which raised the question of how all this metal will effect the atmosphere ove
> time.

Indeed.  I had always thought that "bringing them back down" involved
trying to bring them all the way back down, with only some burning up, but
apparently most all of them are meant to burn up.

I am guessing whatever the answer is, it will fall in the "probably not
good" category.

Mike

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