So yes, that seemed to be it. I now cull satellites if they get too far away from reasonable values for altitude and speed. I display in "In Range" % showing how many are left. It's at 100% within around 10 days of the date of the TLE
Also...
I think that might be to do with extrapolating satellites that have just launched, and so don't have a stable orbit and end up (virtually) floating off into space (as it can not account for future orbit corrections).
Needs a little investigation.
We see them on most all night flights heading east across the US.
LAX-JFK
Also all night flights from Hawaii to LAX. Sometimes.
See them on many but not all flights heading west an hour or two after sunset. JFK-LAX.
I know where to look in...
Totally agree.
In many cases its a misunderstanding that a lot of folks think that the deployment trail is the final presentation. So they don't understand what these flares are.
I've had this conversation with dozens of pilots.
We saw quite a...
Jeff Knox notes this looks rather suspicously like the "John Reeves / Brooksville Martian hoax" text:
Source: https://twitter.com/mrjeffknox/status/1767630781042889044
Indeed, and I think there's an important point here. We know eyewitness account are not very good evidence, as human perceptions and memories are prone to numerous errors and inaccuracies - even entire accidental fabulations. So we value hard...
Lived for a few years directly under the landing path for a military airfield. At night if you looked directly away from the airfield you would see white lights "hovering" in the air, not moving. If you continued to watch you would see them...
That is Naval Air Station Oceana, in Virginia Beach. Those areas off shore are our normal training areas. We use them everyday for air combat training. Part of the area is a telemetry range and commonly used for intercept and dogfight training...
It's hilarious right?
I mean obviously a mylar balloon could go quite high depending on how full it was. But I could even imagine that small plastic bags and light debris could be lifted quite high under certain atmospheric conditions.
Here are...
I've added an FAA2023 sitch
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?sitch=faa2023
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?sitch=faa2023
It just takes the Lat/Lon from each row of the spreadsheet and puts a green marker at the location (except the 3-21-2023...