Article 6VV17 Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

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Story ImageThe thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking due to climate change and one of the possible negative impacts is that space junk will stay in orbit for longer, bonk into other bits of space junk, and make so much mess that low Earth orbits become less useful....

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