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Video of the day: SpaceX Starlink satellites burning up in the atmosphere

The other day it became known that 40 Starlink satellites from the last batch were put out of action due to a geomagnetic storm. The company said they would all burn up in the atmosphere. And today we can see how it happened.

We do not know how many satellites burned down at those moments that are captured on video - multiple "meteors" are only a consequence of the destruction of the satellites. But the source says that we are talking about two satellites.

It is worth noting here that the source performed astrometric calculations to make sure that we are really talking about Starlink satellites, and not about any other artificial or natural objects. In particular, there was an assumption that the stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, launched back in 2017, staged the night show.

Video of the day: SpaceX Starlink satellites burning up in the atmosphere