STARLINK Constellation logo.
April 26, 2020
Several people were arrested by a strange string of stars moving in the sky Thursday evening. They are neither UFOs nor shooting stars.
STARLINK Train in the Swiss sky
"Strange lights" or "a long shooting star". Numerous testimonies have reported mysterious streaks of lights Thursday evening in the Swiss sky. Nothing paranormal behind this unusual phenomenon: it is actually the Starlink satellites of SpaceX, the American space company owned by the entrepreneur Elon Musk and the engineer Gwynne Shotwell.
When to see satellites
The Find Starlink website will let you know when they will pass over your location. For example, they will be visible again this evening at 9:59 p.m. for a few minutes.
STARLINK Train
Swiss residents captured the moment in photos and videos. Since May 2019, the date of the start of the deployment, there are nearly 360 of them circling the earth like a chain of lights and causing a sensation around the world.
Mysterious lights cross the Swiss sky
Musk's satellite network (42,000 satellites) should allow the United States and the rest of the world to have faster internet access from mid-2020. By 2021, almost the entire world will be able to access the Internet by satellite.
Striped sky - The Starlink Situation - Sky & Telescope
However, SpaceX is not the only project for a internet satellites, Amazon and Facebook have the same ambitions. What causes an uproar among astronomers who denounce pollution of the night sky, already that the light pollution of urbanizations pose a lot of problems for them, now the sky will be "zebra" by these satellites during observations of celestial bodies over long time of photos (long exposures) of these stars because the image will be completely "striped" and unusable for astronomical observations.
Joins the world wide Petition against this sky pollution by multi-billionaire companies!
Related article:
Panic wind among astronomers
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2019/05/panic-wind-among-astronomers.html
Related links:
IDA - International Dark-Sky Association: https://www.darksky.org/
Petition STOP! SpaceX Starlink from Spoiling Outer Space for Humanity:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-spacex-starlink-from-spoiling-outer-space-for-humanity
Find Starlink: https://findstarlink.com/
SpaceX: https://www.spacex.com/
Images, Animation, Video, Text, Credits: SCL/LOM/Sky & Telescope/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland berga.
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