HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Mauna Kea’s Subaru Telescope captured video of a mysterious light above Hawaii last week. And it wasn’t a bird, an airplane, or a UFO.
It turns out that the so-called “Flying Spiral” is actually a new satellite launched by SpaceX earlier in the day.
SpaceX sent a global positioning satellite into space for the U.S. Space Force on Wednesday.
“The spiral appears to be related to the launch of a new satellite by SpaceX,” an official at Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Subaru Telescope wrote in a tweet.
Satellite tracker Scott Tilley chime in In a thread, I said the position of the spiral closely matches what SpaceX’s second-stage Falcon 9 rocket would be expected to be minutes after launch.
Fuel vent from F9 2nd stage on NAVSTAR 82 (USA 343) [55268, 2023-009A] on sale. The propagated payload orbital elements show a very close match around 2023-01-18T14:40 UTC. pic.twitter.com/UmcStuWj2L
— Scott Tilley 🇺🇦 (@coastal8049) January 20, 2023
This isn’t the first time similar glowing circular objects have been spotted after SpaceX’s launch, according to sources.
location people as far away as new zealand After the Falcon 9 activity, such a vortex was seen overhead.
In another case of a similar SpaceX satellite, the Falcon 9’s upper stage vent creates a spiral shape as it ejects fuel during its long descent into the ocean, says Space Watcher.
SpaceX has sent five missions into space in the first 19 days of 2023, according to officials.
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