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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink lost over 200 satellites in two months – tracker data
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 13:08:14 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2sn2s8s4-39o1-o498-2ooq-60745srn7797@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94994411-fb55-402c-9606-d2d6c4b3e6d4@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2 Oct 2023, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink wrote:

> One can see the starlink 're-entries' on some re-entry public databases.
>
> On this one from aerospace.org, one can see starlink re-entries 
> yesterday, and also 29 sept., 27 sept., etc.
>
> https://aerospace.org/reentries/grid
>
> It seems to me - a non expert - that starlink regularly re-enters its 
> sats and puts new ones in orbit.  Maybe a starlink sat has a lifetime of 
> 2-3 years.

They are intended to have a ~5 year lifetime. the rentry stats are probably 
skewed by the one mission tht lost all 40+ sats because there was a solar flare 
at the wrong time, raising the atmospere enough that none of them were able to 
climb to altitude.

David Lang

>> Object 
>> 
> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/grid?field_reentry_sighting_value=All&format_select=table&reentry_timezone_selector=UTC&order=title&sort=asc>
>> 	Mission 
>> 
> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/grid?field_reentry_sighting_value=All&format_select=table&reentry_timezone_selector=UTC&order=field_mission&sort=asc>
>> 	Reentry Type 
>> 
> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/grid?field_reentry_sighting_value=All&format_select=table&reentry_timezone_selector=UTC&order=field_reentry_type&sort=asc>
>> 	Launched 
>> 
> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/grid?field_reentry_sighting_value=All&format_select=table&reentry_timezone_selector=UTC&order=field_launched&sort=asc>
>> 	Predicted Reentry Time 
>> 
> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/grid?field_reentry_sighting_value=All&format_select=table&reentry_timezone_selector=UTC&order=field_predicted_reentry_time&sort=desc> 
>>
>> STARLINK-1868 (ID 47154) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/47154> 
>> Launch L15 	Payload 	Nov 25, 2020 	Oct 01, 2023 15:39:12 ± 16 
> hours
>> IUS R/B(1) (ID 19884) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/19884> 	STS 
>> 29/TDRS 4 	Rocket Body 	Mar 13, 1989 	Sep 30, 2023 12:32:28 ± 7 
> hours
>> STARLINK-1074 (ID 44957) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/44957> 
>> Launch L2 	Payload 	Jan 07, 2020 	Sep 29, 2023 20:53:28 ± 3 
> hours
>> STARLINK-5596 (ID 55476) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/55476> 
>> Launch Group 5-3 	Payload 	Feb 02, 2023 	Sep 27, 2023 17:41:11 
> ± 6 hours
>> STARLINK-2345 (ID 47886) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/47886> 
>> Launch L21 	Payload 	Mar 14, 2021 	Sep 27, 2023 15:58:50 ± 1 
> hour
>> COSMOS 1124 (ID 11509) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/11509> 
> COSMOS 
>> 1124 	Payload 	Aug 28, 1979 	Sep 27, 2023 00:23:01 ± 1 hour
>> CERES-1 R/B (ID 57796) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/57796> 
> TIANQI 
>> 21-24 	Rocket Body 	Sep 05, 2023 	Sep 25, 2023 06:59:01 ± 1 
> hour
>> STARLINK-2212 (ID 47779) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/47779> 
>> Launch L17 	Payload 	Mar 04, 2021 	Sep 25, 2023 03:11:43 ± 1 
> hour
>> STARLINK-1419 (ID 45694) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/45694> 
>> Launch L7 	Payload 	Jun 04, 2020 	Sep 24, 2023 11:01:39 ± 10 
> hours
>> STARLINK-1026 (ID 44731) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/44731> 
>> Launch L1 	Payload 	Nov 11, 2019 	Sep 22, 2023 22:21:15 ± 3 
> hours
>> ELECTRON KICK STAGE R/B (ID 55328) 
>> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/46929> 	SPACEBEE 	Rocket Body 
> Nov 
>> 20, 2020 	Sep 21, 2023 12:57:34 ± 1 hour
>> SL-4 R/B (ID 57863) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/57863> 	SOYUZ 
>> MS-24 	Rocket Body 	Sep 15, 2023 	Sep 18, 2023 04:58:16 ± 1 
> hour
>> DELTA 2 R/B(2) (PAM-D) (ID 35754) 
>> <https://aerospace.org/reentries/35754> 	USA-206 (GPS IIRM-8) 
> Rocket 
>> Body 	Aug 17, 2009 	Sep 18, 2023 04:37:26 ± 1 hour
>> KSLV-1 R/B (ID 39069) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/39069> 
>> STSAT-2C 	Rocket Body 	Jan 30, 2013 	Sep 16, 2023 01:21:47 ± 1 
> hour
>> ELECTRON R/B (ID 44635) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/44635> 
>> Palisade 	Rocket Body 	Oct 17, 2019 	Sep 13, 2023 22:07:51 ± 1 
> hour
>> STARLINK-30042 (ID 55702) <https://aerospace.org/reentries/55702> 
>> Starlink Group 6-1 	Payload 	Feb 27, 2023 	Sep 13, 2023 21:07:58 
> ± 3 
>> hours
>>
>
> Alex
>
> Le 20/09/2023 à 00:55, Dave Taht via Starlink a écrit :
>> The original poster of that to twitter walks it back to 54 since the 
>> beginning of the year.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 7:48 AM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via 
>> Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>
>>     ➔➔https://cybernews.com/news/starlink-lost-200-satellites/
>>
>>     --
>>     Geoff.Goodfellow@iconia.com
>>     living as The Truth is True
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>> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-02 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-19 14:48 the keyboard of geoff goodfellow
2023-09-19 22:55 ` Dave Taht
2023-10-02 10:15   ` Alexandre Petrescu
2023-10-02 10:39     ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-10-02 12:27       ` Michael Richardson
2023-10-02 13:48         ` Alexandre Petrescu
2023-10-02 20:08     ` David Lang [this message]

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