It’s a shame I don’t spend my nights looking at the sky because apparently, this was the weekend to be doing exactly that. On Saturday night, May 14, Sydney residents looked up and saw a consecutive line of white dots shooting through the sky. Was it a bird? Was it a plane? Was it a UFO? Nope, just Elon Musk doing his thang.
What Sydneysiders saw was actually 53 satellites from the SpaceX subsidiary which were launched from a Space Force Station in Florida. Astrophysicist Brad Tucker told Sydney Morning Herald that each dot is a satellite launched metres apart, which then slowly spread out by hundreds of metres. Makes much more logistical sense, I guess.
