“UFOs”, “missiles”: the French worried about Elon Musk’s satellites visible in the sky

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Several dozen satellites linked to Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service were noticed and caused some people to misunderstand.

This is not an alien invasion, nor a military attack. Over the weekend, many Internet users shared photos and videos of a strange line of bright objects in the sky, visible in many French regions (especially in the south and east). Actually, it is about fifty satellites of Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, which were released on August 19. They are used to provide Starlink Internet service.

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On Twitter, but also with various media outlets, observers spoke of their incomprehension of what appeared to them to be UFOs, including missiles. Since its launch, this set of satellites has appeared every afternoon, illuminated by its solar panels.

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In the net, Find the Starlink website It allows you to know the time of passage of these satellites over your city. The “satellite train” launched on August 19 should still be visible, to a lesser extent, on August 23 and 24, before they completely disperse and have joined their different orbits at a height that makes them invisible from the I usually. .

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Launched in 2018, the Starlink constellation is regularly the subject of observations of the same nature around the world. Eventually, it should amass more than 40,000 low-altitude satellites.

The service, offered for one hundred euros per month (even in France), offers a powerful Internet connection, especially in areas that are not connected to fiber. It can also be useful in an emergency. Therefore, it is used by tens of thousands of people in Ukraine, while many technical infrastructures have been destroyed since the beginning of the conflict with Russia.

Author: Raphael Grably
Source: BFM TV

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