Starlink: Say Goodbye to the Night Sky As You Knew It
May 25th, 2019My children and I like to look at the stars on most clear nights. There is no ambient light pollution where we are so the views are breathtaking. I’ll have to tell them to try to remember the sky as it is now, because it will soon be crisscrossed by thousands of satellites.
Ironically, we’ve actually been out looking for the Starlink birds and hadn’t spotted them yet…
Most people in the developed world never have the opportunity to see stars in the night sky, so they won’t notice any difference.
Via: SatTrackCam:
SpaceX Starlink objects train 24 May 2019 from Marco Langbroek on Vimeo.
On 24 May 2019 at 2:30 UT, SpaceX launched STARLINK, a series of 60 satellites that is the first launch of many that will create a large constellation of satellites meant to provide global internet access.
Just short of a day after the launch, near 22:55 UT on May 24, this resulted in a spectacular view over NW Europe, when a “train” of bright satellites, all moving close together in a line, moved across the sky.
