Storm-battered SpaceX Starlink satellite's fiery death captured on video
Space debris burns up over Puerto Rico on Feb. 7, 2022 in this still from a video captured by a camera operated by the Sociedad de Astronomia del Caribe. It was likely a piece of the recently launched SpaceX Starlink satellite batch that was severely affected by a geomagnetic storm, according to satellite tracker Marco Langbroek. Some of them have already given up the ghost, including an unlucky satellite that burned up in the skies over Puerto Rico early Monday morning .
"One clue is that the orbital plane of this launch was over Puerto Rico near the time of the event, and the direction of movement matches it,""To get even more certainty, I did some astrometry on the footage and fitted a rough circular orbit to the measured positions.The rough orbital fit I get — I measured three fragments — yield[s] orbital inclinations in the range of 54-56 degrees: Starlink satellites are in 53.
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