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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

Yay, more space junk, and knowing Google they would abandon the whole thing a couple years in when it gets boring and leave them to rot.

Edit:not actually sat, which makes it weird to call a 'starlink competitor' then, but I don't write the headlines.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

At sufficiently low orbits, the satellites would simply deorbit themselves because of the atmospheric drag. Several Starlink sats have been lost this way.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wasn't starlink damaging the ozone layer as well?

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

It was more they're worried it would, because of the sheer scale of metallic satellites that would be burning up in the upper atmosphere

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