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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 15:06:22 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   Thorough analysis of satellite reentries over the last 5 years, and how they were affected by the May 2024 solar storm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13752

   Personally, I think the paper has way too much of a tone of "wow look at all this great reentry data! We can learn so much about satellite drag!" and not nearly enough "Holy shit guys, that's a lot of metal burning up in the atmosphere, maybe this is a bad idea?"