Amazon to put 3000 satellites into orbit

[Mognet]

A couple of recent articles on the problems professional astronomers are facing now

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/radio-interference-from-satellites-is-threatening-astronomy/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/03/hubble_satellite_interference/

[wimvb]

It seems other countries are following Starlink and Amazon. China has announced it's planning its own 13,000 satellite constellation.

https://spacenews.com/china-to-begin-constructing-its-own-megaconstellation-later-this-year/

Who'll be next?

[Ouroboros]

Yet more of our night sky disappearing! 

[Cornelius Varley]

There's probably a joke in there about Amazon satellites being delivered in 1 to 2 business days or that you were out and they were left with your neighbour. But I'm not going to do that. 

[Leo S]

On 05/03/2023 at 09:32, Mr Magoo said:

As a purely visual observer I've seen a number of events that can only be space debris burning up in our atmosphere, quite spectacular.

I think you might be mistaking natural events for reentries. Reentries are actually quite few and far between, at least recently/over the UK. On the other hand, there have been plenty of very slow bright meteors/fireballs in recent years. My cameras caught a few over the last 2-3 years, but only a single reentry (not easy to see - but it's most easily seen when it emerges from behind the tree, low down, at about 3+ sec, traveling right to left), barely caught, but it was a long way off, over France (about 600 Km from here).

Edited March 30, 2023 by Leo S
correction