The Skies are heavily charged .

Lately people have been posting some bizarre affects in the sky all round, Storms building up and clouds doing silly things LOL

From my back yard, see if you see anything interesting about the clouds, try not let the imagination scare you lol ,

August may be full of surprises.

At least it's not snowing...

Not yet, we had hail a week or two back.

What’s going on? In short: routine housecleaning. These were mostly first-generation (Gen1) satellites, deliberately retired to make room for newer models. SpaceX is currently launching up to 50 new Starlinks per week, maintaining a fleet of 8,000 satellites. Weeding out the old ones is just business as usual.


What’s not usual is the atmospheric fallout. The fiery re-entry of even one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms of aluminum oxide vapor, a compound that erodes the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the Great Re-entry Event increases this pollution even more.


To put this into perspective: Before the first Starlink launches began in 2019, only about 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere.





https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx

What’s the tie between the pictures in the first post and stuff about Starlink in the last one?

If it makes you feel any better, the number of deorbits is higher, because of the nature of low earth orbit communication constellations, but the individual satellites are tiny in comparison to the traditional satellites that make up the previous numbers. So, it’s still an increase, but not linear to the total number.

Also, I read an article a year or two ago about the topic (was on Starlink beta, so have kinda kept up with it), the entire constellation deorbiting would be just a fraction of the AlOx ending up in the atmosphere in any given year from meteors and volcanoes.

I’m sure, like a lot of things we do, it isn’t necessarily good for the environment, but I don’t know that this particular thing is one to let yourself get too worried about.