Content warning: Here are two timelapses made from the sprite image sequence. It's hard to miss all the satellites - most of them are #Starlink I barely captured a single image without one. Quite frightening in my opinion. CW because of flickering lightning. Reveal/hide

Remember how we fixed a hole in the ozone layer 40 years ago?

StarLink: Hold my beer

“SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds”

#space #climate #ozone #starlink

https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-starlink-ozone-healing

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds

SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

Megaconstellations like Starlink will increase atmospheric aluminum oxide amounts to 646% over natural levels ( +360 metric tons / year ).

It will take up to 30 years for the aluminum oxides to drift down to stratospheric altitudes, where 90% of Earth's ozone is located.

Once there aluminum oxide will act as a catalyst with chlorine harming the ozone layer.

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.html

#ozone #space #starlink

Satellite 'megaconstellations' may jeopardize recovery of ozone hole

When old satellites fall into Earth's atmosphere and burn up, they leave behind tiny particles of aluminum oxide, which eat away at Earth's protective ozone layer.

^{Science X (Phys.org)}

BREAKING NEWS:
Space debris from SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed on a hiking trail in North Carolina mountains.

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I guess this is to be expected.

I guess we're all OK with this now.

Until a Starlink satellite deorbits into a Senator's house or SpaceX launch debris falls into Mar-a-Lago, NYC, or Washington, DC, Americans won't care or do anything about this.

#ThanksElon #SpaceX #Starlink #MuskSavesTheWorld