Prof. Sam Lawler2d ago

One of the best parts of my academic committee work is that I get regular meetings with @planet4589.bsky.social, who is a lovely human and has the best public database on launches and reentries https://planet4589.org/space/index.html

The worst part is hearing all the stuff that happened in orbit since the last time we met.... A few highlights from today's meeting:

-There are now 10,049 Starlink satellites above our heads. More than 1,500 have already been burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

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Show threadProf. Sam Lawler2d ago
-439 new objects were catalogued in orbit in the last ~month. 410 of those are Starlink satellites.
-there were 16 Falcon 9 launches, 15 of which were just for Starlink satellites
-there were 102 uncontrolled reentries, 38 were Starlink satellites
-One bigger reentry was the NASA Van Allen Probe A, which NASA issued a press release about having a 1 in 4,000 chance of killing someone. (But it didn't. Roll the dice again!)
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