First Five of 200 Launched

[Hans Tucker]

Always like reading about Australian achievements .. even if they are considered small.

Skykraft a Canberra-based space-services company has sent the largest Australian-made payload into space. At approximately 300kg, this locally manufactured satellite stack weighs more than the total mass of all Australian-built space objects ever launched.


The 5 satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, around 1.56 am on 4 January 2023 AEDT on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.


This launch will be the first of over 200 satellites set to orbit the Earth over the next 2 years that will make global air travel smoother and more efficient.



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-04/canberra-company-launches-satellites-air-traffic-management/101826144

https://www.skykraft.com.au/

[drylander]

But what will it do to our observing? Enough space junk up there now with Musk's lot.
Pete

[xelasnave]

I take the attitude that I can not stop any of this but I can refuse to let it destroy my day...now I his hit me when the other day sorting subs every second sub had a trail ..once I trashed them but decided it would be nice to have these trails in my images...and as if by magic when I decided that I want them in they did not appear in the stacked image...the key is not to let a single thing upset you ..time is too valuable to waste fretting.

Alex