{"id":84083,"date":"2025-08-15T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84083\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:20:08","slug":"starlink-satellite-re-entry-lights-up-central-oregon-sky-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84083\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink Satellite Re-entry Lights Up Central Oregon Sky | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Perseids Meteor Shower<\/a> continuing to rain into earth’s atmosphere, you may have seen more than a few objects streak across our skies this week.<\/p>\n

But one object that entered orbit Wednesday night left many in awe across Central Oregon.<\/p>\n

“I see this little dot kind of blink in over Black Crater, and I saw it kind of develop this soft tail like a comet. But in my mind I just kept thinking: ‘That’s not a comet. That’s not a comet,'” Tim Flanagan of Sisters said.<\/p>\n

Several fireballs illuminated the night sky around 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Many took to social media to upload their pictures and videos of the object, asking what it was.<\/p>\n

“Unlike the meteor showers we’ve been seeing the last couple days, this was multiple, streaking, almost scattering pieces of space debris, going north to south across the sky. So I whipped out my phone as fast as I could to try and capture what I was seeing,” Ryan Mick of Bend said.<\/p>\n

According to Aerospace, Starlink Satellite 33557<\/a> re-entered earth’s atmosphere at roughly 10:11 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That satellite was launched November 25th, of 2024.<\/p>\n

“The nice thing we see with space junk coming in, or a satellite coming, is that they’ll break a part and show multiple trails behind them.\u00a0A Perseid is just a single trail behind it,” director of Cascade Astronomy and Rocketry Academy Rob Grossfeld said.\u00a0“Starlinks always re-enter the atmosphere. They’re happening all the time. There are websites that track that. The earth is being bombarded by space debris on a constant basis. We just had an opportunity in Bend to see it.”<\/p>\n

Grossfeld says most space debris burns up in the atmosphere, and doesn’t impact the earth, and if it does, it often lands in the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Perseids Meteor Shower continuing to rain into earth’s atmosphere, you may have seen more than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[16651,3729,3,79,193],"class_list":["post-84083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-email","tag-local","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}