SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

[nitpicker]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51013308

SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

8 hours ago

California's SpaceX company has launched another 60 satellites in its Starlink network.

It brings to 182 the number of spacecraft the firm has now put in the sky as part of its plan to provide a global broadband internet service.

The latest platforms went up on a Falcon-9 rocket, which left from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The new additions mean SpaceX now operates more commercial satellites in orbit than any other company.
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[icymist]

1. Soon we won't be able to see anything in the night sky except SpaceX satellites!

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-astronomers-spacex-satellites-bright-sky.html

They were seen sparkling across the skies of Montana right around Christmas: a tidy row of lights that some mistook to be UFOs. The glowing celestial train has been spotted in California, Texas, in the Netherlands and even Chile.


And it has astronomers worried.

Because the twinkling lights are not stars, planets or the faint objects hunted by observatories. They're satellites, the first 120 in a constellation that could one day number in the tens of thousands if everything goes as planned for SpaceX.

[2naSalit]

3. Exactly!

Now they're taking away the night sky!

I saw the fiurst batch a couple months ago and it freaked me out because I had no idea someone would put that many illuminated objects in the sky like that. I guessed we were possibly being invaded.

Now we have more of those, WTF!

Go away Elon Musk, fuck you!

[Blues Heron]

2. No. Just, no.

Elon, call back your space trash - if you even can. You can't have our beautiful dark skies. we say NO!

[2naSalit]

4. Where does that fucker live?

I feel like we should start a brigade of spotlights and aim them at his home every night.

[defacto7]

5. When narcissists reign nothing and no one matters

except the spectacle of themself.