Falcon-9 upper stage and 60 Starlink satellites
Taken by Szabolcs Nagy on April 22, 2020 @
Wimbledon, UK
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Video summary of every detail:
https://youtu.be/rcpgu05aGrg
Since 22nd April I have been fascinated by this single event. Not necessary for the wind up and upset these satellites causing amongst the astronomy communities, but the technology is definitely fascinating indeed.
Plus I am an amateur International Space Station photographer, therefore everything is in my interest that is at least on a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
A team of amateur International Space Station photographers aimed for the same target and captured something really rare.
There is a whole story about it, but the brief summary - we captured the SpaceX Starlink-7 satellites 7 minutes after they've been deployed from the Falcon-9 upper stage, T+22 minutes after launching. So we counted 60 satellites on the photos, one Falcon-9 upper stage and 4 tension rods.
There were some confusion mainly on my side, because I mistaken one of the tension rods with the upper stage rocket booster, but I explain in this video what led me to the wrong conclusion.
Please watch this video, because you will see the Falcon-9 upper stage like you probably never seen before.
The full story written on my website: https://spacestationguys.com/gallery/starlink-satellites/
Photographer's website:
https://spacestationguys.com/gallery/starlink-satellites/
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