Starlink Satellite launch
The Falcon 9 rocket will launch Friday night between 7:25 p.m. and 11:56 p.m. Arizona Time and will be visible in Arizona skies.
The"constellation" of satellites consists of thousands of satellites that orbit Earth at an altitude of about 550 km, or 341 3/4 miles. Starlink has provided high-speed, low-latency internet on tens of thousands of flights and counting, keeping passengers connected from the moment they step onboard their aircraft and throughout their travels all around the worldDr. Vishnu Reddy, a scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, studies space situational awareness and basically ...
"The sun might have set for us here in Arizona, but it hasn't set in California," Reddy said."So it's catching that sunlight and reflecting off." "If you are at the top of a mountain, you can see the sunset much longer than people at the base of the mountain," Reddy said. So, think of the rocket as the top of the mountain while you're at the bottom.
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