A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly"

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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly" - Lemmy.World

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The more satellites are up there, the higher the chance one is obliterated by space junk or meteorites. The more obliterated satellites, the more space junk.

It’s going to be a massacre.

If a cascading series of obliterations happens I could see us being trapped on Earth until some sort of technology is developed to navigate the debris field. Such idiocy allowing things like Starlink to begin with.
They’re in such a low orbit that they’re barely staying in space already. You could explode all Starlink satellites right now and all their debris would naturally fall back into the atmosphere and leave the orbit clean in just a few years at most.