March 29, 2024

Storm-battered SpaceX Starlink satellite’s fiery death captured on video

A dramatic video serves as a memorial to a star-crossed satellite that lived quick and passed away very young.SpaceX introduced 49 satellites to low Earth orbit on Feb. 3 to further beef up the companys big and growing Starlink internet megaconstellation. (Image credit: Eddie Irizarry/Sociedad de Astronomia del Caribe (SAC)) Some of them have currently given up the ghost, including an unlucky satellite that burned up in the skies over Puerto Rico early Monday early morning (Feb. 7). These might be two pieces of the same satellite or two different spacecraft that had actually been taking a trip in the same orbital airplane, said Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in the Netherlands. “So there is really little doubt that this was a Starlink satellite reentering.

A remarkable video serves as a memorial to a star-crossed satellite that lived quick and passed away very young.SpaceX introduced 49 satellites to low Earth orbit on Feb. 3 to more beef up the companys substantial and growing Starlink web megaconstellation. These might be 2 pieces of the exact same satellite or two different spacecraft that had been traveling in the same orbital plane, stated Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in the Netherlands. “So there is extremely little doubt that this was a Starlink satellite reentering.