Many of those who have spotted the train of lights didn’t know what they were and immediately jumped to conclusions thinking that they were UFOs or an alien invasion.
When you look up at the sky in late November, just know that there’s a chance NASA will be ramming a spacecraft into some space rocks.
SpaceX is inviting companies to hitch their satellites to their Falcon 9 rocket. For a sizeable fee, of course.
Astronomer Marco Langbroek couldn’t help yelling “OAAAAAH!!!!” when he captured the train of satellites snaking across the sky.
When Amazon announced that they’re planning to launch more than 3 000 satellites, Elon Musk couldn’t resist getting a dig in at Jeff Bezos.
Since man first penetrated Earth’s atmosphere, a slew of garbage has been piling up in Near Space. The majority of the junk up there is from space shuttles. Heiner Klinkrad, a European Space Agency (ESA) space expert estimates there to be about 27,000 objects in orbit, travelling 80 times faster than a passenger jet, and that number grows, daily.
It’s earth month everyone, and as a tribute to our pale blue dot, NASA has put together a highlights reel of shots of the earth from space captured over the course of 2012, so we can “understand and sustain our home planet”.