9/25/2022
A glowing streak flew along the Atlantic Ocean Saturday night, baffling onlookers on the East Coast.
Kyle Harrison was checking the address of a customer in Tinton Falls for a delivery of Uber Eats when he looked up to the sky and saw what he thought was a helicopter with a spotlight.
“I kept on looking at it and that definitely wasn’t what it was.” He said. “I thought maybe a UFO, but that’s kind of farfetched.”
He took out his phone and recorded the glowing orb. He then sent the video to everyone he knew and posted it on Facebook. That was when he found out about the SpaceX launch of a Falcon 9 rocket.
The commercial space company owned by Elon Musk launched a rocket on Saturday at 7:32 pm that was designed to hold 52 Starlink communications satellites, according to SpaceX. The rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and touched down on a drone ship located in the Atlantic Ocean nine minutes later.
According to SpaceX, this was the fourth launch and landing of this Falcon 9 rocket.
The Falcon 9’s Starlink satellites, which are 52 in the count, will benefit SpaceX’s quickest and most consumer-grade services. Antarctica is one of the most recent regions connected to the internet via Starlink.
The Falcon 9 rocket demolished from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:32:10 p.m. EDT (2332:10 GMT) Saturday, aviating into a twilight sky that provided viewers with a magnificent spectacle as the launcher left the first stage booster and cargo shroud a few minutes later.
With 52 more satellites set to join the constellation Saturday night, SpaceX is one step closer to completing the full deployment in its first group of 4,400 spacecraft. After Saturday night’s flight, SpaceX has launched 3,399 Starlink satellites into orbit, including prototypes and failed spacecraft.
Jonathan McDowell, a tracker of spaceflight activity and an astronomer, said that the company currently has around 3,000 operational Starlink satellites in space, with about 2,500 operational and a ..
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