Video Like a Galactic Railroad? ‘Starlink Train’ reflected on the aurora live camera (Source = Japan Meteorological Agency Weather News)
At around 23 o’clock on the night of Saturday the 4th, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a slowly moving bright line was projected on the delivery image of the aurora live camera installed permanently in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
According to Weather News of the Japan Meteorological Agency, when artificial satellites receive sunlight, bright spots may appear to move in the night sky. It is said that it is a little rare that a group of artificial satellites launched at the same time and put into the same orbit can only be seen before they leave.
Before dawn, satellites are visible to the naked eye.
This video is regarding 5 am Alaska time.
In the night sky following dusk or before dawn, even though the sky is still dark, the sun’s rays reach artificial satellites in the sky, so a luminous spot may appear to move through the night sky over several minutes.
The International Space Station (ISS) can also be seen as the same star-like bright spot.
The glowing line reflected this time seems to be a line because it is a collection of bright spots from many artificial satellites and moves in the same orbit at the same speed.
The group of artificial satellites shown in the video was launched by Space X, founded by Mr. Elon Mask, and is an artificial satellite for communication service called Starlink.
A vast array of small satellites are used in Starlink’s system, and more than 4,000 have been launched so far.
It is characterized by putting dozens of satellites into orbit at the same time with a single launch.
51 artificial satellites called Group 2-7, which had just been launched at dawn on March 4, Japan time, were successfully put into the scheduled orbit, and it was the first day that they began orbiting.
In the future, the distance between the satellites will gradually widen, but since it did not take much time from launch, it is said that it was seen as a state of order connection.
Since launches are performed frequently, it seems that time zones and orbits can be seen even in Japan.