Looking into the sky

[Hawg]

I’ve seen them a few times. I resent the permission-less intrusion into the natural starscape.

I get that there are already airplanes and satellites that are visible, but these starlink things are pretty obnoxious.  
 

I’ve heard that they weren’t supposed to be visible, and that was part of the clearance that they received.

Imagine every other nternet service provider, putting their own train of those things up there.

[tjm]

On 9/15/2023 at 2:20 PM, Quillback said:

Seen it twice,

  

5 hours ago, Hawg said:

a few times.

So, are these the same units on repeat passes or are they launching new groups periodically? 

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, tjm said:

  

So, are these the same units on repeat passes or are they launching new groups periodically? 

Orbiting the earth for some boneheaded reason.  

Really looking forward to the days of government payouts when all of this space debris starts raining down upon us.  

[bfishn]

SpaceX has been launching up to 60 Starlink satellites on a Falcon9 every couple weeks for some time, with over 4500 in orbit now, and thousands more in the works. Turns out reusable rockets changed the scale of orbital access in a big way. 

[bfishn]

Here's last nights' dump...

 

And here's the 200th successful Falcon 9 landing back in June;