The engines are mounted overlapping the wing roots. They’d be real hard to spot at altitude.
yeah i agree with the air hawk.
This makes the flat Earther’s head explode.
Went outside and looked up at the stars. Saw a satellite right away, then another, then another all in about 5 seconds. They all were in going in different directions but all crossed the about same point overhead at nearly the same time! What’s the chance of seeing that. Of course the sky is so full of them now, it’s getting crowded up there.
Probably Starlink satellites
@bonamoleonard
Huhn. Learn sumptin New ever’ day! I did not know that about those.
I just saw a show about satellite density. They said that after a few good collisions there will be so much uncontrolled debris in orbit that more collisions will happen and the orbit will become so crowded with out of control debris that all the satellites will end up destroyed and it would be centuries before they can send up anything new. I can’t wait.
New version of demolition derby !
The only time Starlinks line up like that is when they launch. Same technology used to dispense nuclear warheads of an ICBM. Starlinks are then boosted into higher working orbits and are no longer visible to the naked eye. Starlink has put around 5500 satellites in orbit. Then there is iridium, with 70, GPS, you need a minimum of 3 atomic clocks visible in addition to your local time to calculate your position. Direct TV satellites, weather, spy, Earth science imaging (farmers are now using satellite images to determine irrigation needs, identify crop diseases, and bug infestations.
Satellite collisions are not the problem. Its only happened once accidentally. The current 8,000 metric tons of space junk and the “Reentry Risk” it poses are the problem.
Back in the 90’s I was the System Administrator of the Orbital Debris Program server at the Johnson Space Center. At that time there were less than 8,000 “objects” that could seriously ruin you day if they hit your equipment ranging from old satellites to entire rocket upper stages. NASA had to keep all their shuttle missions clear of the stuff they knew about. Old Atlas upper stages tend to hang around for decades and explode even if you vented the residual fuel out of them making the problem worse. Then in 2007 the Chinese Communist Party, aka as the world’s biggest a-holes in space, conducted an anti-satellite test. You can see the the result on the attached graph. Nearly doubled the size of the problem.
Doesn’t AT&T have a biggun either falling out of orbit soon or already has?
ESA had a 5,000 lb one fall in February in the Pacific. In April a man in Naples, Fl had a 2 lb hunk of metal punch a hole through the roof and two floors of his house from a pallet of batteries chucked from the ISS
AT&T’s must still be up there. It’s coming down though from what I understand talking to one their employees.