Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru/Udupi

Mangaluru/Udupi, Dec 20: Several residents of some areas in the twin districts witnessed some mysterious flying objects with shining bright lights on Monday December 20 evening.

The long train of lights is nothing but satellites, launched into space by the US company SpaceX, run by South African entrepreneur Elon Musk. Around 40 satellites were seen in the sky late in the evening on Monday in Mangaluru and Udupi.

The satellites are part of something called Starlink. This is a project by SpaceX to launch thousands of satellites into orbit, and beam the internet to Earth from space. SpaceX hopes to use this to fund missions to Mars.

As these satellites pass overhead, they appear like a bright train of lights as the satellites follow one after the other in orbit.

SpaceX’s goal with Starlink is to supply high-speed internet to every single location on Earth, from London to Antarctica. People will then pay a fee to access the service, with speeds estimated to be slower than fibre broadband but faster than existing satellite internet services.