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Starlink satellites are being assaulted by ferocious solar storms, caused by the Sun pelting our atmosphere with energized ...

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Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting Earth, and most of them are destined to return. As the number of satellites ...

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