Study Shows How Sunspot Activity Speeds Up Reentries

The 2008 reentry of ATV-Jules Verne. Credit: NASA.

It’s getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX’s Starlink and other players in the mega-satellite constellation game are adding an exponential load of satellites and orbital debris to the low Earth orbit environment. But all that goes up, must eventually come down. Now, a new study looks at solar activity over time as a predictor for how reentries trend.

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