I’m just worried it’s going to be expensive to keep the atmo replenished

My understanding is that solar winds stripping your atmo is so slow it’s a problem on the scale of millions of years

Let me check a source

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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-mission-reveals-speed-of-solar-wind-stripping-martian-atmosphere/

Okay 21k lb during an earth day does seem like a lot

My understanding is starlink won’t contribute to the kessler syndrome because they are in low Earth orbit. They routinely fall back down to Earth so they don’t contribute to much space junk

There are other potential issues with that, though. Just not space junk