Let'sgoflying!
Touchdown! Greaser!
So there was plenty of talk recently in the local area about the string of beads in the night sky which was an array of SL satellites. (photos looked impressive)
I found a tracker app, and this website tells me to expect to see a bunch of them Oct9.
Wiki says there are 2300 up there. Below the link is an image for my location, well it shows all the SL sats. I was mildly shocked about the sheer number of these objects (I realize they are depicted many times larger than real life, but still that is a ton of hardware up there.)
Any simplified explanation of why they have chosen the orbits they have, why they *sometimes* appear in lines, why there are so many over the (uninhabited) poles (I realize they are not geosynchronous), how they avoid collisions (do they all share the same altitude?), are astronomers affected by them during their scientific work, what about rocket launches; are their routes easy to avoid, what is the effect of the effete satellites- do they head to the nearest playground or burn up completely?
https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx
I found a tracker app, and this website tells me to expect to see a bunch of them Oct9.
Wiki says there are 2300 up there. Below the link is an image for my location, well it shows all the SL sats. I was mildly shocked about the sheer number of these objects (I realize they are depicted many times larger than real life, but still that is a ton of hardware up there.)
Any simplified explanation of why they have chosen the orbits they have, why they *sometimes* appear in lines, why there are so many over the (uninhabited) poles (I realize they are not geosynchronous), how they avoid collisions (do they all share the same altitude?), are astronomers affected by them during their scientific work, what about rocket launches; are their routes easy to avoid, what is the effect of the effete satellites- do they head to the nearest playground or burn up completely?
https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx