How much do SpaceX's reentering Starlink satellites pollute Earth's atmosphere?

[Admin]

SpaceX's Starlink satellites now make up 40% of reentering satellite debris. But is Elon Musk's space company the worst polluter of Earth's upper atmosphere?

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[24launch]

OMG. Seriously, can we please stop these "the sky is falling" articles? Yes, Ms Pultarova, we KNOW you hate SpaceX, Elon Musk and especially Starlink. It's just one article after another from you critical of especially Starlink and how they're single-handedly destroying either all forms of ground-based astronomy or now, our atmosphere.

Know that China is fast coming on-line with their mega constellation of LEO broadband satellites and guess what, the 2 dozen they've launched are MUCH MUCH brighter than Starlink satellites in both reflectivity as well as RF "noise" and they don't have to answer to anyone. If Amazon can ever get their act together, Kuiper is planned to be several dozen thousand satellites as well.

Hopefully in your future articles you will share your "love" for them as well and not continue to focus on just one company. Also keep in mind that the majority of people in the world still have no terrestrial internet connectivity at all, much less stable, high speed internet. Do you believe they're just out of luck and should rather pack up and move to "where the internet is"? Or that their only option should remain the insanely overpriced, pitiful speed offerings from the few GEO broadband companies?

 

[Philly]

The Earth at it's surface has 197 million square miles. The pollution from a few satellites falling is rather "Chicken Little" or Chicken pooo stuff.

Eventually ICE automobiles are going the way of the horse. While we squabble about wanting to keep our horses (ICE) the Chinese will just do it, and become the world's largest EV maker killing off the entire US auto industry as they dominate. The same with solar. Any US cell phone manufactures left?

Now the US leads in space access basically due to SX (yes, I hate Musk's politics) but it is a growth industry and we're the leaders. I see the same drive to kill SX and regulate them to death over silly Chicken Little BS. Oh, They dumped some clean water on the ground in Texas, shut them down. Rockets make loud noises, shut them down. There paper work wasn't perfect, shut them down. Put up nothing but road blocks, guess who gets a chance to dominate space access while we squabble? China, with the super ironic thing being, they just steal our tech and sell it back to us cheaper.

Oh sure, maybe Boeing and Sue Origin will make better rockets, than everyone, hahaha! Want to invest in BO? They are on target to turn a profit in maybe 2100. I wonder how many billions they are in the hole? By the time they have a functional launch system, Starship most likely will be dominate and able to under cut everyone including the Chinese, unless we destroy SX's advantage of being 5-10 years ahead of the world. I wonder if the people who are crying about water on the ground in TX have ever heard of rain?