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ceejayoz a day ago

It wasn’t at orbital speeds yet.

ricardobeat a day ago | parent [-]

Over 21000km/h when it broke up, compared to ~28k for stuff orbiting in LEO. Should still go quite far.

ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-]

Yes, although drag is gonna be… substantially higher like this as well.

InDubioProRubio 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Does melting down not reshape metallic particles into ideal droplett parts ?

ceejayoz 16 hours ago | parent [-]

No.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/world/africa/kenya-space-...