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Jonathan McDowell
@planet4589
Astronomer commenting on space launches. Orbital Police. Personal account. All plots CC-BY. @planet4589 on Ma, bsky, etc.

Sep 7, 2020, 5 tweets

It looks like one of the sats from the most recent Starlink launch, Starlink 1734, has failed and is about to reenter. (Red: Celestrak SupTLE data; Blue: Space-Track.org)

Just to remind people again: overall deorbit/failure stats at planet4589.org/space/stats/me…

And Starlink orbit height vs time plots at
planet4589.org/space/stats/me…

Looks like I may have written S-1734's obit prematurely. Despite the existence of a Space-Track TIP message, per latest Celestrak SupTLEs (red) looks like it has now made a small orbit raise burn.

More orbit data overnight confirms that SpaceX now have control over S-1734 and it is no longer decaying

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