On Friday, June 23, five minutes after midnight, an object appeared in the west of Poland that crossed the sky and left a clear, very long tail behind it. The object was heading north. “Long and slow flight (several tens of seconds), an exceptionally long burning trail stretching across the sky, clear fragmentation – all this strongly indicates the burning of the artificial satellite” – wrote Karol Wójcicki, who runs the popular blog “With his head in the stars”. . Only with time it turned out that it was not a Chinese rocket.
The Chinese rocket crossed the Polish sky
On Friday, another astronomy enthusiast, Adam Hurcewicz, who runs the “About space and astronautics” profile, announced that the mysterious falling object is a Chinese one. At 00:03 it began a spectacular deorbit over Poland, during which it split into two parts.
“The object was moving from south to north and I identified it as 2018-002C = 43101, the Chinese second stage of the Chang Zheng 2D rocket. On January 9, 2018, it carried two satellites SUPERVIEW-1 03 and SUPERVIEW-1 04” – informed Hurcewicz. In the comments to the post, he adds that it was the upper, shorter part of the rocket with dimensions of 10.9 x 3.35 meters that deorbited.
“Check the recordings of home cameras, especially if you live in eastern or western Poland, from where the object could be visible lower above the horizon” – encourages Wójcicki.
Deorbits are deliberate actions to bring objects out of orbit back to Earth. Such actions, as well as the trajectories of satellite flights, including Starlinks, can be tracked, e.g. on the Satellite website. address you will find the route of the said rocket
Source: Gazeta
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