Did anybody else see that big bright streak arching across the sky headed east a little after 10:30 last night? It looked very similar to this from last month. . .
. . .although this was a more regular linear array, big bright line with some internal structure to it. . .and a they put up a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy just 7 hrs before this flew over my house. . .
My nephew designs these rockets for SpaceX, and thought these are the satellites catching light off their solar panels after deployment. I was worried it might have been an uncontrolled re-entry like the stuff that biffed it in Eastern WA last month from a Falcon rocket, but he's smarter than me, so I'll go with it. Mine was crappy video, but looked like. . .
Anybody else see it? It was not subtle, easily the brightest thing in the sky at the time, on par with the crescent moon,
Starlink satellites launch. Routine stuff. They posted before the launch that it would be yesterday. The satellites, when deployed, look like a long string of pearls
I saw it last night while camped on an E WA lake. 1030 ish. We were looking at the stars and taking about satellite spotting and it flew over. My buddy noted it was really bright for a satellite but it whizzed over head In about a minute.
The International Space Station went over last night from 10:22-10:30, flying from SW to ENE.
I'm guessing you saw that. It was very bright- we watched it while enjoying a back deck campfire
No this was definitely the Starlink satellite launch. . .the "string of pearls" that John Dude mentioned is a good description, except that the 60 satellite pearls were still so close together last night that they looked like a bright line, and this was in the NW sky, traveling east. It was pretty striking.
We were at Disney World and Universal a month ago. On a whim we decided to go to the Kennedy Space Center, about an hour away. Place seemed really busy for a Tuesday. Walking in we see a countdown clock at 1:45:00. Come to find out they were launching a SpaceEx/StarLink rocket! Completely walked lucked into that one. Pretty cool to watch and you can feel the rumble even though you're a long ways off. Told the kids they'd be gaming and streaming from those satellites this fall.
You never know what those are!! Those could be anything!!! You never know!!
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