The bursts of lights in the sky that have been sighted last night in different parts of Spain have nothing to do with the Chinese Long March 5B rocket that is expected to impact the Earth’s atmosphere this weekend, but with artificial satellites. Sources from the AstroHita Foundation of the La Hita Astronomical Complex, in Toledo, have informed Efe that the lights observed at night this Thursday correspond to artificial satellites of the network of the SpaceX project of the Starlink company, of the magnate Elon Musk.
The same sources have specified that is about communications satellites to provide 5G coverage across the globe and that its vision in the sky is similar to that of other satellites, but that it does not involve any mystery or has nothing to do with the Chinese rocket.
They thus coincide with the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), which has confirmed the passage last night through the center and south of the peninsula of the Starlink satellites, which could be seen from different parts of Spain in the form of a “rosary of lights in the sky”. The lights were contemplated by residents of different towns of Zamora and Madrid, which came to link them with the remains of the Chinese Long March 5B rocket, which has been discarded.
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The Chinese rocket out of control
This rocket was used last week by China to launch one of the modules of its future space station into space, and it is expected that throughout the weekend it will impact the earth’s atmosphere, which has caused concern about the probable fall to Earth of some of its debris and the activation of different space surveillance services.
The Chinese rocket, with an estimated mass of between 17 and 21 tons and a size of about 30 meters, is being monitored by the European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking Service (EUSST), which sees it unlikely that remnants of it will fall into populated areas of the Earth.
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