Nearly 500 Starlink Satellites Have Incinerated in Earth’s Atmosphere So Far This Year

According to a To present with the Federal Communications Commission On Tuesday, 472 Stallin Satellites, December 2024, December 2025 and burned in the atmosphere between December 2025 and 2025.

Starlink satellites last about five years. After that, they went behind the wheel to burn the Earth’s atmosphere. Missile company Elon Musk, Director General of Spacex, Tesla and X, left the first Starlink satellites in 2019, ie we see the first full-scale Deorbiting. More than 1.4 million home Starlink use Internet service In the United States and many rural areas Technology has definitely been a gamechanger.

However, scientists raised concerns about the unexpected results in the number of satellites in the sky. About 10,000 active objects in orbit in the lower ground – from the surface or more than 1,750 starlink – more than 1,750 starlink, According to the information Jonathan collected by McDowell, an astrophysic that follows the satellite.

Spacex presents voluntary reports to the satellite satellite position twice a year. Comb December RegistrationOnly 73 satellites have been deorbited in the previous six-month period. Mass growth can have a serious impact on earth.

Scientists have increasingly found metal from the spacecraft and rarely stormed space debris. Detected last summer 5.5 pounds of aluminum from a starlink satellite were found on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada.

“As always, humanity is a new experience with us. We are doing something that nature does not previously,” McDowell said.

Spacex insists that the deorbiting process is safe, Putting the risk of human losses For current V2 satellites, “less than 100 million” in less than 1 million.

“Space satellites are consolidated by the aims of satellites on the fished regions of the world, and industrial standards of no responsibility for the earth.

Representatives for SpaceX did not respond immediately to a request for comments.

Climate scientists are concerned about burning satellites

With the first satellite of Starlink, it is still unchanged when Deorbiting the Idlit effects on important numbers, Ignore.

SpaceX already receives permission to release 12,000 satellites from FCC and has up to 42,000 planned in the future According to Space.com.

A study 66-kilogram satellite aluminum oxide nanopartments were found to have collapsed in the 550-pound satellite atmosphere, financed by NASA and published in Geophysical research letters in June last year. These nanoparticles have increased by eightfall since 2022 since 2016 and weighing current Starlink satellites 1.760 pounds each of them.

Separate examples “Aluminum and exotic metals”, drawn by the National Ocean and the Atmospheric Administration, were found in 10% of the stratosphere. They forecasted that the figure would increase to 50% in the number of satellites, which was released into low underground orbit. However, it is still an open question to which these metals will have.

“My impression of talking to different groups of such an investigation is that if you have to bet, the research will still say that we still have the least ordered greatness,” McDowell said.

Enough for a group of scientists Open letter to FCC In October last year, he asks them to start a new satellite due to the “damage to our atmosphere”.

At present, the orbit has more than 12,000 active satellites, 7,751 of them belong to Starlink. But probably at the top of the satellite race – an article in 2020 Nature By 2030, 100,000 satellites in the sky were “not possible, most likely,” he said.

“This is how we grow to the point where we are not at the beginning of the environment.