SpaceX dropped potentially lethal debris from TWO DIFFERENT SPACECRAFT onto Saskatchewan within 6 months. And as far as I can tell, they just waltzed in and picked up the second piece without anyone official knowing about it. This is a very big problem for a lot of obvious legal reasons.

It mostly terrifies me because there are 7,000 Starlinks, and if each one leaves behind debris after demise, that's... a lot.

Why Saskatchewan?

1) It's big, and flat, and a large percentage of the area is monoculture crops in giant fields, that get driven over by giant machines twice a year. The first spacecraft pieces were found at seeding time, the second at harvest.

2) Due to the orbits that have been chosen and simple geometry, we're under the densest band of satellites. (This is true everywhere ~50-54 latitude N and S)

It's not necessarily that we're getting hit by more, just finding them 😬

So...this is pretty obviously a very big problem.

First news article about it is here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472334-starlink-satellite-part-hit-a-canadian-farm-when-it-fell-from-orbit/
(of COURSE it ends with "SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment")

Non-paywalled version: https://archive.ph/5ZljY

Hoping a few more journalists will want to write about this, and hopefully that will nudge some people in the Canadian government to be more concerned about an American billionaire dropping potentially lethal junk on us?