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Today is Wednesday, February 9, 2022.
Back on February 3 of this year,
Elon Musk sent up a Starlink rocket.
This is an image of the Falcon Nine
rocket that had over 49 Starlink satellites.
Many of you will probably remember the strange sightings
that was seen from Ohio all the way through
Arkansas, Mississippi, Illinois that some people said was related
to this rocket, which I don't believe.
Here is an image of that object that was seen.
Now, this was January 31.
This was sent to me was
seen in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
But 40 of the 49 satellites have either
reentered Earth's atmosphere or are going to reenter.
One of the reentries was reported
to the American Meteor Society.
It was spotted from Mexico to Texas.
And here's a Twitter post showing that reentry.
Here on AMS is 58 of those reports.
Many people described it as a slow moving meteorite,
but more than likely it was probably one of
Elon's Musk's Starlink satellites that had failed to reach
orbit because of a solar flare that was impacting
the Earth at the time of launch.
Here we have an image of a
solar storm that probably affected those satellites.
It erupted around the 30 February the 31st,
depending on what time zone you were in.
And yeah, this bad boy is what created the
drag on the satellite so they couldn't reach orbit.
Here on Satv.org, they track space junk and satellites
that are coming in and I was really surprised
that they have six more Starlink satellites.
One will reenter today and the rest are
going to reenter on the 10th, the 11th,
the 12th, the 13th, and the 14th.
Now, according to Satellite View here the one for
today has already re entered and it looks like
reentry point was up there by Japan.
We got Australia here, Indonesia, etc.
On here we have an image of the
map of all the different Star links.
There's evidently 22 that all fly together and the
drag on the satellite was 50% higher than what
they had expected and what had happened in previous
launches, SpaceX said in a statement.
Starlink tried to fly the satellites in a safe
mode to reduce the atmospheric drag, so I guess
they knew it was coming, but they still were
not able to reach their final destination.
Spacex also said in a statement that the
affected satellites won't collide with other satellites.
As they deorbit, there won't be any orbital
debris and no satellite parts will hit the
Earth more likely burn up at reentry.
This is an image before they were launched.
Spacex has launched more than 2000 Starlink
satellites into orbit, out of which nearly
1900 of them are still functioning.
This has been the biggest loss for SpaceX so far
and luckily they have not had a single rocket failure.
We could easily take out a
whole batch of satellites at once.
More than likely they're going to take into account
take it a little bit more serious when there
is a solar event going on, we all learn
from mistakes and hopefully them there at Starlink yeah
they learned a little bit more about what could
happen with these CMEs that come off the sun.
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