/ 15 July 2022

Like Starlinks in the sky

Image source: Supplied
Image source: Supplied

If you looked up this week and spotted a straight line of bright dots moving rapidly in the sky, it wasn’t our alien overlords coming in for landing… It was a convoy of Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in California. Since 2019, the company has launched more than 2,700 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit to provide broadband internet to regions that usually struggle to get coverage, including in remote parts of Oz – and most recently in Ukraine. Starlink gazing is set to become a common pastime as SpaceX turns its sights to assisting communications for commercial airlines, ships and trucks. As for other awe-inspiring things in the sky (and we’ve been talking about them a lot this week…), a supermoon illuminated Oz last night. The ‘buck’ moon is the biggest and brightest of the year and is named after the male deer that grow out their antlers in July.

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