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? |
Starlink satellites?
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Indeed, if you check their orbital path they passed directly overhead.
https://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=starlink#MAP |
Video of Starlink Satellite train.
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Originally Posted by 57mm
(Post 10697969)
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? ;) |
Thanks Guys, sure is a lot of stuff up there......
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Originally Posted by 57mm
(Post 10698043)
Thanks Guys, sure is a lot of stuff up there......
Space X is planning over 3000 of them. |
Originally Posted by logansi
(Post 10698057)
Space X is planning over 3000 of them.
An experience she won't be able to share with her kids. :( |
Originally Posted by logansi
(Post 10698057)
Space X is planning over 3000 of them.
mjb |
Originally Posted by derjodel
(Post 10698077)
A few years ago, in a summer night, I was laying on the grass with my daughter, watching the sky, counting the meteors.
An experience she won't be able to share with her kids. :( Wossat; different Meteors?:{ |
Nostalgia’s not what it used to be.....
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Originally Posted by mickjoebill
(Post 10698088)
It has recently applied for additional licences for 10x that number!
mjb |
At least they might drive the NBN out of business. And if they do achieve their actual goal of funding space flight to Mars, as a space nerd i'm slightly ok with it.
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Taking the beauty out of the stars IMHO...
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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) |
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) 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. |
Video of Starlink Satellite train. "You see sweetie. There really is a Santa Claus." |
what they COULD have done is spread them out like a dot matrix printer so they spelled SPACE-X
THAT would have been cool |
Maybe they did it in morse code.......
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Originally Posted by derjodel
(Post 10698077)
A few years ago, in a summer night, I was laying on the grass with my daughter, watching the sky, counting the meteors.
An experience she won't be able to share with her kids. :( |
Originally Posted by Cough
(Post 10698139)
Taking the beauty out of the stars IMHO...
However I understand how you feel, LP has actually magnified here in the Carse; my C8 has a struggle on it's hands now...however.. |
Discussed here: https://www.pprune.org/military-avia...ights-sky.html
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En route ATC here - had a private jet at FL410 report seeing this, this morning. I had read this thread yesterday, knew exactly what he was describing. Nice to put his mind at ease explaining what he was seeing :p
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