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SpaceX's Starlink satellites are visible from the UK this week - best times to see them

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If you look to the night skies this week, you may notice a mysterious train of lights flying overhead. But before you worry about an impending alien invasion, thankfully there's a simple explanation for the lights - they're SpaceX'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 is set to launch another 60 satellites into orbit tonight 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 over 500. Eagle-eyed Brits will have several opportunities to see the Starlink satellites from the UK this week.

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