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Elon Musk‘s SpaceX on Friday said that the Starlink satellites launched by the company aboard its Falcon 9 rocket to a lower-than-expected orbit on Thursday will “fully demise.” What Happened: SpaceX launched Falcon 9 with 20 Starlink satellites from California on Thursday. However, the Starlink satellites were deployed in a lower-than-intended orbit owing to an issue with the rocket’s second-stage engine. Though the company subsequently tried to make contact with the satellites to raise their orbits, the attempts failed and now the satellites will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and fully demise,…