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which has potential to knock out satellites unintentionally, as opposed to expected launch stages, though the path for that seems to make potential sense too.
Most unintended re-entries of Starlink seem to be more dramatic with disintegration, so a different kind of item eg Russian, might well make sense, but here’s a confirmed Starlink satellite entering over Puerto Rico, for comparison:
@calhoon2005
my conjecture is based also on the fact that’s been a peak in solar activity, a, G1-G2 level event:
https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Geophysical/2/1
which has potential to knock out satellites unintentionally, as opposed to expected launch stages, though the path for that seems to make potential sense too.
Most unintended re-entries of Starlink seem to be more dramatic with disintegration, so a different kind of item eg Russian, might well make sense, but here’s a confirmed Starlink satellite entering over Puerto Rico, for comparison:
https://youtu.be/a7KUSN89-A0
Anyone else here old enough to remember Skylab??