SpaceX’s Satellites Are Falling From the Sky Every Single Day

If Starlink continues scaling up operations, there could be as many as five of these satellites raining down on us daily.

Here’s what you’ll learn: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s... probably a hunk of trash metal from yet another de-orbited Starlink satellite burning up in the atmosphere.

Starlink constellations are only adding to the swarm of space junk in low-Earth orbit. While the SpaceX answer to affordable worldwide internet may not be the worst threat to our part of the cosmos—especially compared to other, larger satellites—one to two of their 8,000 satellites are already falling back to terra firma every single day.

And there could soon be as many as five daily de-orbits, once Starlink and other companies such as Amazon and Kuiper collectively get 30,000 satellites hovering above us. That doesn’t even count the Chinese systems, which are predicted to add another 20,000.

Author’s summary: SpaceX satellites fall daily, increasing space junk.

Popular Mechanics — 2025-10-13

SpaceX’s Satellites Are Falling From the Sky Every Single Day

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