Primary source linked therein,
(.pdf) https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_S... ("Starlink Approach to Satellite Demisability")
- "On August 20, 2024, a 2.5 kg piece of aluminum was found on the ground in a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, and determined by SpaceX engineers to have come from a Starlink satellite that reentered following the erroneous Falcon G9-3 deploy. The debris was traced by SpaceX engineers to a specific satellite and part – a modem enclosure lid of the backhaul antenna on a Starlink direct-to-cell satellite. This part was predicted to fully demise by both the NASA and ESA tools and is the only known Starlink fragment to have not done so."
This is only one of many reported - there's Canadian news coverage from earlier last year that SpaceX conveniently left out of their own report
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/cp-space-junk-more-...
Same story featured in Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-sp...
Am I the only one who think: "Canadian government officials joking about that 'Musk is throwing now satellites at them'".
They should get some sort of compensation, even if no one was injured.
Canadians catching all sorts of strays these days
Littering. That's a $250 fine
That's not great, especially since SpaceX apparently expected the component to burn up in the atmosphere. Given there are thousands of them up there, and all must re-enter over the next decade or so, that's a lot of potential debris impacts on the ground.