▲ 26 ▼ Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 08 Aug 2023 (aussie.zone) submitted 3 years ago by bot001@aussie.zone [M] to c/melbourne@aussie.zone 286 comments fedilink hide all child comments Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) A comment on the r/ thread suggests it's a stage from a Russian launch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kudra@aus.social 1 point 3 years ago* @calhoon2005 my conjecture is based also on the fact that's been a peak in solar activity, a, G1-G2 level event: https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Geophysical/2/1 which has potential to knock out satellites unintentionally, as opposed to expected launch stages, though the path for that seems to make potential sense too. Most unintended re-entries of Starlink seem to be more dramatic with disintegration, so a different kind of item eg Russian, might well make sense, but here's a confirmed Starlink satellite entering over Puerto Rico, for comparison: https://youtu.be/a7KUSN89-A0 Anyone else here old enough to remember Skylab?? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kudra@aus.social 1 point 3 years ago* @calhoon2005 my conjecture is based also on the fact that's been a peak in solar activity, a, G1-G2 level event: https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Geophysical/2/1 which has potential to knock out satellites unintentionally, as opposed to expected launch stages, though the path for that seems to make potential sense too. Most unintended re-entries of Starlink seem to be more dramatic with disintegration, so a different kind of item eg Russian, might well make sense, but here's a confirmed Starlink satellite entering over Puerto Rico, for comparison: https://youtu.be/a7KUSN89-A0 Anyone else here old enough to remember Skylab?? permalink fedilink source parent