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The launch on Monday (Feb. 2, Groundhog Day) began at Space Launch Complex 4 East from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Just like Punxsutawney Phil this year, the rocket "saw" its shadow, flying into a sunny blue sky at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1547 GMT or 7:47 a.m. PDT local time).
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Starlink drops 4,000+ satellites in orbit after terrifying China near-miss
SpaceX is carrying out one of the largest in-orbit reshuffles in the short history of commercial spaceflight, pulling thousands of Starlink satellites into lower paths around Earth after a close call with a Chinese spacecraft.
Victorians have woken to space junk from one of Elon Musk’s satellites falling through the sky. At about 5.27am on Tuesday morning, a slow-moving shower of sparks illuminated the sky, but experts were quick to identify that it was space junk, rather than a meteor.
A new study determined 92% of Amazon Leo’s satellites may currently impede research.
It can beam high-speed internet to war zones, protest movements, remote islands, and festival deserts — while placing extraordinary power in the hands of one unpredictable billionaire, Elon Musk.
Observational Astronomer Associate Professor Michael Brown said the phenomenon was likely a piece of Musk's Starlink-5103 re-entering the sky.
GLOBE Telecom, the number one mobile network operator in the Philippines, is the first to market Starlink’s Direct to Cell (DTC) satellite service in the country and Southeast Asia, and the second in Asia.