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Elon Musks Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
Look out!
By Frank Landymore
Published Oct 8, 2025 10:12 AM EDT
Elon Musks race to dominate our planets orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up.
According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one or two of these Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day, he recently told EarthSky. And that figure, McDowell warned, is only going to keep climbing.
The alarming statistic underscores the concerns around rapidly populating the planets Low Earth Orbit with expendable satellites. Musks SpaceX has been launching thousands of them up there using his reusable rockets since 2019, with more than 8,000 currently in operation.
https://futurism.com/space/elon-musks-satellites-falling
And just think that ozone layer protects us from the sun..............

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(6,031 posts)Very soon we'll have a real Kessler syndrome and then nobody will be going to space.