
Did I See a Meteor or a Reentry? What does re-entry look like. (Aerospace.org)
THE GREAT STARLINK RE-ENTRY EVENT: SpaceX just conducted a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry.
Earlier this year, analysts noticed something strange: Starlink satellites were falling out of the sky–a lot of them. Four to five per day were re-entering Earth’s atmosphere and vaporizing in plain sight. This went on for months. Between December 2024 and July 2025, more than 525 Starlinks deorbited.









