Incidentally, I went out this evening to take a 2nd look at the Moon-Venus near conjunction (dusk, clear skies, VERY pretty) and was rewarded by the rather spectacular sight of 60 SpaceX Starlink satellites going over in a line, “winking out” one by one as they passed into the Earth’s shadow. VERY cool!
Vid from Netherlands a couple days ago (but no “winking out”, and closer spacing) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUygPqjXEc
Story today:
Deployment from Falcon 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGF9lEQLDPQ
Starlink is another game changer. I’m glad to see SpaceX moving forward so far. They also just launched the most used rocket in US history, the latest Falcon 9.
They passed by last month and had lots of people freaking out lol.