That’s actually pretty cool. I wonder how close they actually are to each other.
My son is a flight operations engineer at NASA. He controls an array of four satellites that orbit in formation, sometimes as close as four kilometers apart. although the “flying” is all done by strings of commands performed well in advance, it’s still pretty stressful.
His is a scientific mission and the satellites are worth about a billion dollars each. Not a mistake you want to make.
When Elon was criticized for ruining the joy of gazing into the night sky, he simply shrugged and said “Well if you really want to be inspired by gazing at stars, you will have to come with me to Mars, eat mushrooms and help build the observatories.”
Ah, the creepy conga line.
Musk, I hope you’re a good guy...
Great picture.
If they were UFOs they would be zigging and zagging all over the place (up, down, different angles)—rather easy to tell the difference.
That little parade would be perfect for multi link satellite trunking in Starlink. I wouldn’t mind a 20 satellite trunk feed to the house. 20 x 1GB/sec = 20GB/sec.
It’s Star Trek: A wagon train to the stars.
A few are out of formation...
Good thing the one in front didn’t slam on it’s breaks due a giant Chinese rocket motor. There would have been a pile up in orbit. Hard to get wreaking services 200 miles away from home.
Saw exactly that last night and the only thing I could think that it might be was SpaceX Starlink satellites. I am glad to see my guess was confirmed.
I think it looks lovely.
First impression: it’s a bit early for Christmas, but I’d swear that was Santa and his reindeer. :)
That string of lights would destroy the look of the night sky. It is like putting windmills all over the place. He could at least paint then black.