It was not a meteor that crossed the sky of the Iberian Peninsula on the night of Sunday, January 23, around 11:00 p.m. From the south to the north of Spain, the satellite turned into a ball of fire ended up falling on the Cantabrian Sea, according has informed the Fire and Meteor Research Network (SPMN) on Twitter. The satellite belonged to the Starlink network; a division of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company.
The SPMN is now investigating what happened and the information at the moment is scarce. Spanish astronomers have observed that the satellite has broken into several pieces, around 7 or 8, as they have commented on the social network. This information is extracted from one of the videos that have been recorded of the event.
Musk’s satellite reached 27,000 kilometers per hour when entering the Earth’s atmosphere over the Iberian Peninsula. It is also known that the satelite from star link-2200 the past had been released January 2021. So it has taken a year to re-enter the atmosphere and catch fire. The satellite, if there is anything left of it, ended up in the waters of the Bay of Biscay.
3) BETWEEN CLOUDS THE DETECTION FROM STEPPE, #SEVILLE by Antonio Robles @AJ_Robles it still looks amazing. Note the fragmentation of the #Starlink2200 in 7 or 8 pieces that coincides with the testimonies: https://t.co/CRfB0fblVv
To send/request videos: [email protected] pic.twitter.com/yZL5QoTiTE— Fireballs and Meteorites Research Network (SPMN) (@RedSpmn) January 24, 2022
star link, a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, aims to bring the internet anywhere in the world thanks to a network of more than 1700 satellites. In fact, at the beginning of this year, the service began to be offered in Spain.
It wasn’t a meteor, it was a Starlink satellite.
Soon the social networks were filled with comments from various parts of Spain to comment on what was happening: a meteor had broken into pieces and was falling. There were several places from which it could be seen: Seville, Zamora or Bilbao were some of the cities from which it could be seen. But It wasn’t a meteorite, it was a Starlink satellite..
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