Hard to pin down exact numbers but I’ve seen claims for over 3,000 active satellites and about just as many inactive. That is all history now. Plans were to launch several thousand more quite regularly. I wonder how it will pan out. As Arlo says, it’s creepy when you think about it.
I remember in the late fifties that we’d go out on our back patio after dark and look for the Echo 1 and 2 satellites to go overhead. The newspaper even published the time and direction to look every day.
I usually just look for the international space station. I do ham radio so I download signals from it and try to talk to the astronauts have not got to talk to them yet but I have downloaded many pictures with my radio
Thousands of internet satellites launched by Musk are already interferring with astronomers ability to make observations, and it’s only going to get worse.
There is so much junk circling our planet it’s a wonder they don’t start just crashing into each other and falling from the sky. All those invisible signals and energy waves pointing down at us must cause some damage in ways we aren’t aware of as yet. JMHO.
According to UCS, there are 6,542 satellites, out of which 3,372 satellites are active and 3,170 satellites are inactive, as recorded by 1st January, 2021.
Tyge over 1 year ago
One of those may be a balloon. Apparently ya never can tell now a days!
Da'Dad over 1 year ago
Hard to pin down exact numbers but I’ve seen claims for over 3,000 active satellites and about just as many inactive. That is all history now. Plans were to launch several thousand more quite regularly. I wonder how it will pan out. As Arlo says, it’s creepy when you think about it.
fjblume2000 over 1 year ago
Anybody remember the furor over Sputnik?
Rhetorical_Question over 1 year ago
Spy satellite?
i_am_the_jam over 1 year ago
A few days ago I saw the ISS and a meteor cross paths.
MrFixit over 1 year ago
I remember in the late fifties that we’d go out on our back patio after dark and look for the Echo 1 and 2 satellites to go overhead. The newspaper even published the time and direction to look every day.
Devils Knight over 1 year ago
I usually just look for the international space station. I do ham radio so I download signals from it and try to talk to the astronauts have not got to talk to them yet but I have downloaded many pictures with my radio
nosirrom over 1 year ago
Smile. You’re on Candid Satellite.
saylorgirl over 1 year ago
I’ve seen the space station only once. It was very interesting to see.
colddonkey over 1 year ago
Fear not they’re just some blown off course weather balloons.
T Smith over 1 year ago
Thousands of internet satellites launched by Musk are already interferring with astronomers ability to make observations, and it’s only going to get worse.
My First Premium Member over 1 year ago
Ready. Aim. Fire the Sidewinder missile.
William Bednar Premium Member over 1 year ago
Maybe all those satelites will block enough Sun light to compensate for global warming?
ScullyUFO over 1 year ago
Without a powerful telescope, the geosynchronous ones appear as stars.
ScullyUFO over 1 year ago
Also, only a very small percentage of human life understands how much our world is satellite dependent.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago
My father worked 3rd shift, he knew when to look for satellites. This was many years ago before there were 1000s of them.
timbob2313 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Space garbage, which will eventually fall back to earth. Someplace
flying spaghetti monster over 1 year ago
Star light, star bright,First star I see tonight,I wish I may, I wish I might,aww nuts it’s a satellite
jarvisloop over 1 year ago
Smartphones are scarier. I call them “NSA-approved personal surveillance devices.”
(Someone else might have mentioned that before in here, and I just stole his/her idea.)
morningglory73 Premium Member over 1 year ago
There is so much junk circling our planet it’s a wonder they don’t start just crashing into each other and falling from the sky. All those invisible signals and energy waves pointing down at us must cause some damage in ways we aren’t aware of as yet. JMHO.
gigagrouch over 1 year ago
Space junk!
Crandlemire over 1 year ago
I think this will amaze you — Stuff In Space https://stuffin.space/
dwl1 over 1 year ago
According to UCS, there are 6,542 satellites, out of which 3,372 satellites are active and 3,170 satellites are inactive, as recorded by 1st January, 2021.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Are they sure it isn’t balloons?
The Pro from Dover over 1 year ago
Look! Up in the sky!
ladykat over 1 year ago
What a creepy thought. We are being spied on day and night.
atomicdog over 1 year ago
I don’t see anything creepy about the fact that we are a spacefaring civilization. I think it’s wonderful.
jscarff57 Premium Member over 1 year ago
…and they can see YOU TOO, Arlo!
micromos over 1 year ago
Every new thing gets abused evenutally.
paranormal over 1 year ago
Somewhere in a dark room, some man is looking at you pointing at him…
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
Maybe a couple are UFOs. Wave at em and say Hi. Who knows what may happen…..
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 1 year ago
If I can see you, you can see me… but why would you want to?
KEA over 1 year ago
…just try to find a place humans haven’t trashed. :-/
cryptoengineer over 1 year ago
Last week I persuaded a bunch off friends to step outside an watch a train of Starlink satellites pass overhead. Very cool.
The Lone Reader over 1 year ago
Elon, get out of this body!!
eced52 over 1 year ago
Is Elon helping the NWO with all his satellites?
dtercho over 1 year ago
https://geoxc-apps.bd.esri.com/space/satellite-explorer/