As sun nears peak of solar cycle, small satellites are paying the price
As the Sun kicked into high gear, three Australian satellites burned up in the atmosphere much sooner than expected
Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in the Noongar language of the First Nations people of Perth.
When a satellite is in low Earth orbit (2,000 km or less), it experiences orbital decay as it drags closer and closer to the surface, eventually burning up.
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