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Deorbiting Satellites Can Cause Ozone Layer Damage

 This YouTube video by Anton Petrov presents information from a recent research letter describing how ozone depletion can occur from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry.  https://youtu.be/TJE0z9L79TA Link to the paper referenced in the video on Geophysical Research Letters.  11 June 2024, Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry in the era of mega-constellations https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280

Article from Astronomy.com

Small Untrackable Pieces of Space Junk are Cluttering Low Earth Orbit