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has suggested an even more catastrophic consequence of the Starlink network. As its satellites and others burn up in our atmosphere, their magnetized "dust" could pollute our atmosphere and weaken our planet's magnetic field, which extends thousands of miles into space and shields us from dangerous cosmic radiation.
As more commercial satellites are launched and then burned up in the coming decades, that tally could reach a billion fold, she told, with most of the dead satellite dust accumulating in an upper region called the ionosphere that extends up to 400 miles above Earth — "and it could just stay there forever."
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