Weather of Arabia - A state of controversy and speculation prevailed on the social networking sites used in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after the spread of a video clip showing a group of luminous western objects crossing the sky of the Kingdom at dawn on Saturday, converging on each other in a surprising longitudinal line.
For his part, the astronomer expert, Dr. Khaled Al-Zaaq, decided the matter, and published the video clip on his Twitter account, and explained that it is the Star Link satellites that cross the sky at dawn this Saturday, and are seen from several regions.
In the interpretation of the head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Eng. Majed Abu Zahra, to Al-Arabiya.net, he said that the latest group of Starlink satellites was observed in the sky of Saudi Arabia, as they were seen as very bright and bright points in a straight line at dawn today, Saturday 08 July 2023, and it is certain that many People watching the sky would think it was an alien invasion.
Star Link satellites cross the sky at dawn this Saturday and are seen from several regions
* A clip circulating pic.twitter.com/ifpOcMJIU2- Dr. Khaled Saleh Al Zaaq (@dralzaaq) July 8, 2023
He added: “On Friday, July 07, 2023, SpaceX launched a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, as the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 48 satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Starlink aims to provide high-speed global Internet coverage, and it will be available even in rural and remote areas, and it is likely that the Internet constellation will need at least 10,000 satellites in orbit to provide coverage to most parts of the globe, but astronomers are not happy until you find a company SpaceX is a way to dim the flashes of those satellites, because their flashes can affect observations of the deep sky that are so important to modern astronomical research.
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