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karkisuni | 5 years ago

Ignoring the "0.9" satellites, this says 694 out of 713 launched so far are good. Is 97% success bad?

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shaklee3|5 years ago

97% success is very bad when the number of satellite is so high that it causes space junk, yes. See here: https://twitter.com/ProfHughLewis/status/1312021242900295688

JaggedJax|5 years ago

Thankfully these are all in LEO and the vast majority are under a controlled decay, and those that are not currently were most likely placed in a specific orbit to decay safely first per your starbad link.