| To: Savant who wrote (2501) | 4/4/2024 1:29:58 PM | | From: Savant | | | | more junk>> On April 2, an explosion was seen in the California sky. While some assumed the fiery display was from a Space X rocket that launched just hours prior, aerospace researchers claim the object was actually the Shenzhou-15 rocket that China launched nearly a year and a half ago.
On Nov. 29, 2022, China's Shenzhou-15 rocket blasted off with three astronauts on board. The rocket was made up of multiple modules, and the one carrying the astronauts landed safely in China in June 2023. DailyMail.com reports that the 3,300-pound orbital module — the one that exploded over Los Angeles at 1:40 a.m. — was "not designed to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere."
Debris has not been discovered in California, but it's believed that space junk either burnt out in the upper atmosphere or landed in the Pacific Ocean.
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| From: Savant | 4/12/2024 12:07:58 PM | | | | | | SpaceX will launch one of its Falcon 9 boosters for a record 20th time on Friday, highlighting once again the success of the company’s reusable rocket system.
Booster 1062, which took its first flight in November 2020, will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on Friday, April 12, on a mission to deploy 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.
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| From: Sr K | 4/16/2024 7:55:10 PM | | | | | | LATEST
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Musk’s Starlink Cracks Down on Growing Black Market
Users who access the satellite internet service in Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa, where it hasn’t been authorized, receive notice they will be disconnected
By
Nicholas Bariyo
in Kampala, Uganda,
Gabriele Steinhauser
and
Alexandra Wexler
in Johannesburg and
Micah Maidenberg
in Washington
Updated April 16, 2024 3:12 pm ET
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A Starlink device on a roof in South Africa; South Africa’s telecommunications regulator has said that use of Starlink is illegal there.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has begun a crackdown on users who are connecting to its Starlink high-speed internet service from countries where it hasn’t been authorized—taking steps to close an expanding black market for the company’s satellite kits highlighted by a recent Wall Street Journal investigation.
Starlink customers in Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa have received email notifications from the company in recent days, warning that their access to the service would be terminated by the end of the month. The emails, viewed by the Journal, noted that using Starlink in areas where it hasn’t been approved by local regulators was against the company’s terms of service.
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