Ohio Residents See SpaceX Satellites Flying in Low Orbit
February 13, 2023 4:56AM EST
FILE – In this May 23, 2019, file photo, a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. It’s a 21st century space race: Amazon, SpaceX and others competing to get into orbit and provide internet to the earth’s most remote places. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
CLEVELAND, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – We’re looking skyward more often.
Maybe that’s why some Ohio residents saw lights in the sky after sunset Sunday evening.
But they weren’t balloons.
Astronomers like Jay Reynolds at Cleveland State University says SpaceX launched a series satellites on Saturday.
And they say people were seeing the satellites reflecting the sun as they flew in low orbit.
They appear as a string of lights, working their way into higher orbits.
Some 2000 SpaceX satellites will be used for high speed internet connectivity as part of the StarLink program.
