Curmudgeon
By Chuck Cagara
Speaking of Elon Musk, I decided to venture outside on Sunday night to have a gander at the latest group of Starlink Satellites that launched recently.
This “train” of 60 small orbs (not all are visible in this photo) flew by at 9:18pm and made for quite a spectacle, especially since there is much ado being made about recently released UFO information and the widely anticipated upcoming governmental report on the subject.
To quote from a character in the 1951 thriller, ‘The Thing From Another World,’ “Keep watching the skies!”
Starlink recently lowered their altitude to about 550 km so that atmospheric drag clears out most of their orbital debris. Iridium and OneWeb have much higher orbits (~750km and 1200km, respectively), so debris from collisions with those satellites would remain in orbit forever.