SpaceX Is Conducting a Giant Chemical Experiment on Our Atmosphere Without Realizing - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKK0dgDIxKY
#SpaceX #Satellites #StarLink #OrbitalDataCenters #OzoneLayer #Pollution

SpaceX Is Conducting a Giant Chemical Experiment on Our Atmosphere Without Realizing - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKK0dgDIxKY
#SpaceX #Satellites #StarLink #OrbitalDataCenters #OzoneLayer #Pollution

The chemical society and its discontents: Ozone layer edition
"Healing of the Ozone Layer Shows Power of Science and Global Unity"
A bit of good news: The ozone hole over Antarctica closed unusually early in 2025
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/the-ozone-hole-over-antarctica-closed-unusually-early-in-2025-and-scientists-believe-there-is-a-reason-that-almost-no-one-is-looking-at/26003/
"Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say"
The ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century. The hole this year was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals began to take effect.
We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another potential atmospheric calamity by using the upper atmosphere to destroy huge constellations of satellites after a very short (i.e. 5 year) lifetime. According to a new paper by Leonard Schulz of the Technical University of Braunschweig and his co-authors, material from satellites that burn up in the atmosphere, especially transition metals, could have unforeseen consequences on atmospheric chemistry - and we’re now the biggest contributor of some of those elements.