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Old 6th May 2021, 21:56
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NWA SLF
 
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Just curiosity - did the SpaceX Starlink booster de-orbit burn failure make a splash here last month when eventually created a light show in the Seattle skies back in March? Incidentally, I am posting this using Starlink. Does the Chinese announcement state whether this booster de-orbit creating a possible problem was due to intentionally having no way to do a controlled de-orbit or was it like the SpaceX booster that had a plan but the plan, successful so many times, failed this time. Trying to weed out the China bashing from the oops, sorry about that, didn't mean for my engine nacelle to fall on a soccer match.
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