• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        8 hours ago

        I don’t remember that happening. I would actually be surprised if a satellite would survive reentry with basically anything left of it. If you want to return something from orbit you need heat shield or you’re not getting it back.

        Even the ISS is expected to completely burn up and that’s much higher mass than a starlink satellite

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        11 hours ago

        A grand? Then I’m keeping it. I can make more as a roadside tourist attraction. Or maybe I sell it to the Chinese or Bezos or something. You want your toy back, Musk? Pay up, you cheap bastard!

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        18 hours ago

        It wasn’t from a starlink satellite though.

        which the U.S. aerospace company SpaceX later admitted was part of a cargo trunk for its Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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