Look: Lights in Australian sky believed to be from Russian rocket
The Australian Space Agency said bright lights in the night sky over the southeastern part of the country were most likely the remains of a Russian rocket.
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The Australian Space Agency said bright lights in the night sky over the southeastern part of the country were most likely the remains of a Russian rocket.
“It would have been amazing to video it,” one person said. “But I was just dumbfounded!”
Russia has started to modernize its Glonass space-based navigation system with a new generation of satellites.
A Russian rocket body fell back to Earth near southern Australia on Monday night (Aug. 7), putting on quite a show for observers in the region.
The Australian Space Agency later cleared the confusion, revealing that the luminous event was the result of Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere