SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact the atmosphere and the night skyIn its FCC filings, SpaceX said it will “minimize any atmospheric impacts resulting from the deorbit of a large number of spacecraft.” No details beyond that are given, however, the company says it will move some of the data centres to a heliocentric orbit (around the sun).
That’s good, since a group of astronomers, including Dark Sky Consulting founder John Barentine, have estimated that if each of SpaceX's million satellites were to be deorbited, it would mean one satellite reentry every three minutes. Comments are closed.
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