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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago

Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

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Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

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PhilipTheBucketA to

Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago

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Bad news for Starlink: Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking

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The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility

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Given the speed of climate change, probably more like a speed run to our sister planet, Venus.

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