{"id":91288,"date":"2019-05-25T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/wow-this-is-what-spacexs-starlink-satellites-look-like-in-the-night-sky"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:02:21","slug":"wow-this-is-what-spacexs-starlink-satellites-look-like-in-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/wow-this-is-what-spacexs-starlink-satellites-look-like-in-the-night-sky","title":{"rendered":"Wow! This Is What SpaceX\u2019s Starlink Satellites Look Like in the Night Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wow-this-is-what-spacexs-starlink-satellites-look-like-in-the-night-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the video, SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites pass overhead like a string of pearls, a brilliant trail of moving lights in the night sky. SpaceX launched the satellites into an initial orbit 273 miles (440 kilometers) above Earth. They are making their way to a final orbit 342 miles (550 km) up.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk hinted on Twitter today that the satellites are doing well. \u201cSo far, so good,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Langbroek said he used the knowledge of SpaceX\u2019s deployment altitude and target orbital inclination (the angle of the orbit with respect to the equator) to estimate where the satellites would appear in Friday night\u2019s sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites-spotted-night-sky-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video, SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites pass overhead like a string of pearls, a brilliant trail of moving lights in the night sky. SpaceX launched the satellites into an initial orbit 273 miles (440 kilometers) above Earth. They are making their way to a final orbit 342 miles (550 km) up. SpaceX CEO and founder [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}