Comment by pr337h4m

0.5% of the starlink node network deorbits each month currently, though potentially more.

They're already having a negative, contaminating effect on our upper atmosphere

Sending up bigger ones, and more (today there's some 8,800, but they target 30k), sounds ill-advised.

1: https://www.fastcompany.com/91419515/starlink-satellites-are... 2: https://www.science.org/content/article/burned-satellites-ar...

However 10 years in Musk time is at least 30 years in real time

Had me going for a minute there.