This does not bode well for the Starlink constellation as a whole:
As I understand it, the tenuous upper atmosphere's drag increased by 50% due to atmospheric heating. Something that used to be countered by the Earth's Magnetosphere. Which is a turbulent sphere of influence, not a mathematical construct; for those trying to keep up. 
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