Tesla might be in shambles, and Twitter might be a shell of its former self, but there is one venture Elon Musk has found success in: filling our atmosphere with high-tech garbage.
Recent footage released by Don Pettit, a career NASA astronaut who recently returned from a 208-day stint aboard the International Space Station, shows multiple convoys of Musk’s SpaceX satellites crisscrossing each other over the horizon.
“How visible were these by eye from this unique vantage point?” one social media user asked. “Very visible,” the astronaut replied. “Many were as bright as Jupiter, they would flash from 1 to 10 seconds.”
It’s a fascinating look at our planet from an angle few of us will ever get a chance to witness with our own eyes — the kind of photography Pettit has become well known fo