Starlink satellites!!!

[Axkiker]

Well dang now I want to see them.

[LewStulePH.D.]

Hell, maybe we can start seeing commercials up there too

Will the 2 guys on the dock still be on the dock? <---- hole cut in bottom of bucket

Utilizing BBC™ 'King's X'

[LewStulePH.D.]

We are stardust, we are golden...

~Joni Mitchell

Oh look, the Fiddler/guitarist on the right rented the same tuxes as the guy who takes Senior Portraits for the yearbook or annual

[Stratos81]

Good. Maybe one of them will be mine as I’ve been signed up forever without a change in status

LMAO!!! I was literally thinking the same thing! By the time I get starlink, the internet itself will be outdated hahahahaha

[termarsam]

If you are into space stuff, this website will amaze. Caution it will task your computer...Has a little bit of everything from satellites to space junk orbiting the earth.

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

[Riccochet]

Yall realize you can sign up with an address that is accepting order and have it shipped to your home address.

[Jig34]

Counted 45 one night last summer. Pretty neat to see.

[JTN]

Maybe I'm missing somthing here but, we've watched satellites at night for the least the last 25 years,some were a lot brighter then others,just have to be in a dark area on a clear night. How are telling they are star link?

[mactlman]

starlink train!!!

https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48119

[Flippin 416]

LOL! This board never disappoints.

I thought the exact same thing. I came here to share a little story......and here comes the negativity.

[Dtronic]

I thought the exact same thing. I came here to share a little story......and here comes the negativity.

There are 2,100 Starlink satellites now and they are already affecting astronomy photography. FCC just gave Starlink approval to add 40,000 more by 2027. It's a big problem.

[Riccochet]

There are 2,100 Starlink satellites now and they are already affecting astronomy photography. FCC just gave Starlink approval to add 40,000 more by 2027. It's a big problem.

Have you seen how much crap is floating around up there? 100's of thousands of satellites and pieces of junk in orbit.

But since it's Musk and his 2000 satellites it's all his fault. Mmmhmm, yeah, ok. Not buying it.

[Dtronic]

Have you seen how much crap is floating around up there? 100's of thousands of satellites and pieces of junk in orbit.

But since it's Musk and his 2000 satellites it's all his fault. Mmmhmm, yeah, ok. Not buying it.

100's of thousands


There are less than 8,000 satellites currently in orbit. You might be talking about space debris.


https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/

[Riccochet]

100's of thousands


There are less than 8,000 satellites currently in orbit. You might be talking about space debris.


https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/

Is that not what I said? Satellites and junk? Reading, it's fundamental.

[mactlman]

Is that not what I said? Satellites and junk? Reading, it's fundamental.

russia just created a lot more pieces of junk u there last year when they blew up a satellite. the govt is heavily invested in starlink so it will be HUGE!!!

[okhawg]

Is that not what I said? Satellites and junk? Reading, it's fundamental.

NASA says there is about 500000 pieces of junk in space.

[dbs1]

While sleeping out on the beach at Powell last summer I see this line of lit up square boxes connected to each other with a lit up rope fairly low in the sky. Takes about 10 minutes and they slowly move out of sight. Within another few minutes quite a bit higher a little lit up light goes zooming right, then left and all around and then hit the jets and was gone.

After returning home I googled to find I'd seen those starlink satellites but no idea what the smaller, higher zippy thing was.

[ProVle]

This is the ISS info. https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/home.cfm

[mactlman]

There are 2,100 Starlink satellites now and they are already affecting astronomy photography. FCC just gave Starlink approval to add 40,000 more by 2027. It's a big problem.

bezos getting ready to do the same with a internet service I believe also??

[Hoot]

they're so low in orbit if they were geosynchronous they would fall back to earth. The speed is what keeps them in orbit.

And as far as I know they are only in a line like that for a short while after they are released. They'll eventually break off individually to go to their final orbiting position. Pretty dang amazing all the automated stuff they have going on over our heads.

Thanks for explaining about the Starlinks as the term Geosynchronous sort of created a serious Vapor Lock in my thought process