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Starlink quietly lost over $250,000,000 in burned satellites this summer. (tiblur.com)

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Not one major news outlet is covering the destruction of Starlink this summer. Though Lemmy might enjoy Elon losing more money.

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[–] grahamsz@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Here's a reputable site that says SpaceX is no longer operating (or has otherwise lost) 378 of the 5000 satellites they've launched

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/09/starlink-7-2-6-14/

However that's an all time number, not just the last few months. The biggest single hit I'm aware of was a batch in 2022 that hit a solar storm that engineers thought they could weather.