Odd traffic over Norfolk
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Odd traffic over Norfolk
In the back garden at 0515 (couldn't sleep, let the dog out). Clear sky, so gazed up at the plough. Spotted traffic moving eastwards at high level, in what looked like radar trail at approx 3nm spacing, some 20 of them. No contrails, little noise. Single steady white light under each aircraft.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
In the back garden at 0515 (couldn't sleep, let the dog out). Clear sky, so gazed up at the plough. Spotted traffic moving eastwards at high level, in what looked like radar trail at approx 3nm spacing, some 20 of them. No contrails, little noise. Single steady white light under each aircraft.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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Wossat; different Meteors?
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What's the point of releasing them all at once? Shouldn't they be scattered around the globe? like a GPS constellation?
(assuming they're all part of the same thing)
(assuming they're all part of the same thing)
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
What's the point of releasing them all at once? Shouldn't they be scattered around the globe? like a GPS constellation?
(assuming they're all part of the same thing)
(assuming they're all part of the same thing)
Those that are dead will relatively quickly decay and renter. The others will be separated into their correct spacing by lowering and raising them by +/-300m and then raised into their final 550km planned orbit for the first 1600. Up to 42,000 satellites are planned in various shells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starlink
Movie just covers the initial 12,000 satellite shell with an inclination of 53 degrees.
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what they COULD have done is spread them out like a dot matrix printer so they spelled SPACE-X
THAT would have been cool
THAT would have been cool
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