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originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
My guess is aircraft contrail -- with the orange one being lit by the sunset
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
My guess is aircraft contrail -- with the orange one being lit by the sunset
At first, I was thinking the same. Until I saw the higher resolution shot ( 2nd pic I posted ). It seems high enough in quality that you'd be able to see the plane.. not just a solid red ball.
If its nothing special then I apologize for posting.
originally posted by: Triton1128
..... I cannot imagine space debris that large falls readily, and undocumented. Normally, if a satellite is decommissioned, its dropped into the south pacific and involves news coverage/tracking. ...
According to regulations from the Federal Communications Commission, any satellite in geosynchronous orbit—i.e., at an altitude of just under 36,000 kilometers—must be moved farther away from the Earth at the end of its useful life. A complicated formula determines how high the satellite must go to reach a suitable "disposal orbit," but most end up about 300 km above where they started.