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According to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist specializing in space debris monitoring, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are at the forefront of this statistic. On April 4 alone, two Starlink satellites and an old Russian military model re-entered the atmosphere. With plans to launch up to 30,000 Starlink satellites, the daily rate of objects falling could rise to as much as 15.