Have you noticed the long train of lights crossing the night sky lately?
People have counted more than 50 Starlink satellites which have been launching into space about once a week and are making appearances in Okanagan skies courtesy of SpaceX鈥檚 satellites.
Between 8 and 9 p.m., people have been seeing the unsually long train of SpaceX satellites travel west to east and then disappear.
SpaceX has been launching roughly 40 to 50 satellites into low-earth orbit at a pace of once per week, the first launch on Sept. 18 from Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida.
According to a website , Starlink satellites will be able to seen in the Okanagan on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 7:26 p.m. looking northwest to east and again on Oct. 3 at 7:51 p.m.
Starlink is a satellite constellation initiative started by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (Tesla) with the goal to create global internet coverage especially for remote areas of the world.
According to , Musk鈥檚 Starlink wants to eventually launch 40,000 satellites.
Instead of using a couple of large satellites, Starlink uses thousands of small satellites, said tech target.
