{"id":182626,"date":"2024-02-13T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/spacex-to-deorbit-100-older-starlink-satellites"},"modified":"2024-02-13T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:23:13","slug":"spacex-to-deorbit-100-older-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/spacex-to-deorbit-100-older-starlink-satellites","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to deorbit 100 older Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-deorbit-100-older-starlink-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TITUSVILLE, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX plans to remove from orbit about 100 of its older Starlink satellites because of a design flaw that could cause them to fail.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/Commitment%20to%20Space%20Sustainability.pdf\">statement<\/a> Feb. 12, SpaceX said it would perform controlled descents of about 100 \u201cearly-version 1\u201d Starlink satellites out of concerns that the spacecraft could fail in orbit and no longer be maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese satellites are currently maneuverable and serving users effectively, but the Starlink team identified a common issue in this small population of satellites that could increase the probability of failure in the future,\u201d SpaceX stated. The company did not elaborate on that issue or identify the specific satellites affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TITUSVILLE, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX plans to remove from orbit about 100 of its older Starlink satellites because of a design flaw that could cause them to fail. In a statement Feb. 12, SpaceX said it would perform controlled descents of about 100 \u201cearly-version 1\u201d Starlink satellites out of concerns that the spacecraft could fail in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}