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Five SpaceX Starlink satellites are about to burn up – SlashGear (slashgear.com)
8 points by rbanffy on July 1, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



For those who only read the headline and the comments: Five of SpaceX’s Starlink constellation satellites are set to come burning back through Earth’s atmosphere, _an unexpectedly low attrition rate_ following the company’s launch in late May.

Seems like it's doing well.


Furthermore, only 3 are failures. 2 more are being deorbited as a test.


I bet those 2 are also failures, but probably in other satellite subsystems. For example, if the solar panel only partially unfolded, there would be enough power to do a controlled descent, but not enough for useful service work.




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