Dan points out the “space force” is paying attention.
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After midnight, not in a down town area, you can easily see 19-22 satellites per HOUR. What most people think is a UFO, is 99% of the time, the ISS.
You can go online, and see exactly what time of day it will pass right over your house.
What throws everyone off about it how it appears / disappears.
Satellites are a LOT higher and moving a LOT slower than the ISS. Thus, they are constantly being lit up by the sun as they cross the sky. The ISS is going over 1000 mph. As it passes across the earth, in front of the sun, it disappears, only to reemerge further away as it leaves Earth's shadow.
It looks like this bright, faster moving light just appears from a section of the sky, goes across at a really good clip and then just fades away / disappears a lot faster than it should. That is beyond most likely what you saw.
There are a group of satellites named Irridium. They are coated with extra reflective material, for which I can't remember why. These satellites do the same thing as the ISS. You see them coming, then they get really really bright for a second or two and then fade back.
Only high-altitude satellites (high enough you can't see them) are traveling slower than the ISS. The ISS is in low earth orbit (LEO) and is traveling at ~17,000 mph. Other LEO satellites are traveling at a similar speed.
The Iridium reflective covering is to prevent the satellite from heating up too much under continual sunlight (about 1.3 kw/m2).
Came here to say this! 😄
Coincidentally the ISS came over our area only a few early mornings ago. 😀What do you think that ‘rocket’ in the sky was?
fyi - the flight tracker, https://globe.adsbexchange.com/, shows the ISS and it's path real time. (of course, only when it's over the specific area of map you are viewing at the time).
I saw the starlink string bean a few years ago in the AZ sky before it was talked about. I tripped out for a few mins until someone pulled it up online and it matched exactly.
The material they are coated with provides extra protect against the sun's rays for astronomical studies.