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Half the size of a pickup truck? So like, a normal car?
Yep, they are in Low Earth Orbit. A place that has a very, very small amount of air, so the satellites experience drag, lose speed, eventually the propellant tanks run dry, and they burn up in the atmosphere. The ISS experiences the same thing, which is why its altitude slowly falls, then you see a sharp increase as they push to a slightly higher orbit.
At the altitude the SpaceX satellites are at, they only passively stay up for a few years. With the onboard propulsion giving them each another few years.
Please let one land on my house so I can sue SpaceX and retire early.
One fell in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan. Dude got a hassle, some publicity, and a nominal fee of a grand or something.
edit: here’s a mastodon thread where astronomer Sam Lawler lives nearby and visits the site with media:
“act of God”, legalese for “fuck you”.
Complaining about Kressler Syndrome
Complaining about Starlink
Pick one, asshole. As shitty as Musk is, Starlink is in too low of an orbit to cause Kressler Syndrome
Half the size of a pickup truck… a Mazda compact, or a jacked up GMC Hemi half ton?
Even just saying Ford F150 gives a lot of leeway.
There could be cubes the size of gorillas.
Privatizing space sure did make things more efficient, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
return to sender
preferably on his head
