{"id":112860,"date":"2025-10-10T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:22:16","slug":"train-of-elon-musks-starlink-satellites-captured-in-orbit-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112860\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Train\u2019 of Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellites captured in orbit | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Don Pettit\/ISS via SWNS)<\/p>\n

By Dean Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jaw-dropping scenes show a “train” of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites<\/a> in orbit – along with an impressive aurora.<\/p>\n

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured the spectacle from 257 miles up on the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS).<\/p>\n

Sharing footage from his recent time on the orbiting platform, he commented on Tuesday (Oct 7): “My best sighting of a Starlink satellite ‘train’ from orbit!”<\/p>\n

Posting on X (formerly Twitter), his son A. Pettit called it a “contender for one of the coolest videos from space”, and wrote: “Nothing visualizes how omnipresently SURROUNDED by satellites we are better than this video.”<\/p>\n

He added: “And this is only the ones that are visible in a tiny fraction of the Earth\u2019s limb.”<\/p>\n

Starlink<\/a> is the world’s first and largest satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet capable of supporting streaming, online gaming, video calls and more.<\/p>\n

As of early October 2025, there are nearly 10,000 Starlink satellites<\/a> launched into orbit, with SpaceX continuing to deploy them at a rapid pace, maintaining the world’s largest satellite internet constellation in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

Don Pettit returned to Earth on April 19 after spending 220 days aboard the Space Station.<\/p>\n

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(Don Pettit\/ISS via SWNS)<\/p>\n

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