If you look up to the night sky this week, you may notice a trail of mysterious lights flying overhead. But before you worry about an alien invasion, thankfully there’s a simple explanation - they’re Elon Musk ’s Starlink satellites!
The Starlink satellites form a constellation of thousands of satellites, and are designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit.
SpaceX successfully launched another 60 satellites into orbit last week on board a Falcon 9 rocket, before landing the rocket booster back on Earth.
This brings the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to almost 500. Eagle-eyed Brits will have several opportunities to see the Starlink satellites from the UK this week.
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