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SpaceX rocket accident leaves the company's Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit


A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.

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