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They burn up on re-entry, at least they’re supposed to.

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Thanks, atmosphere 🙂❤️ that’s interesting design! Will any of the debris reach the planet or is it designed to break apart in a particular fashion?

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Will any of the debris reach the planet

Not in a solid form. There may be some undesirable effects though at greater numbers, we don’t really have good data. Here’s a blog post by the European Space Agency talking about a couple studies on the effects of satellite reentry. Note that the satellites they simulated were significantly larger than the Starlink satellites.

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My understanding is they’re designed to completely disintegrate.

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And by doing so, aluminium in them is attacking the ozone layer that is already having a tough time…

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