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Two launches were completed for 31/08

On Saturday, August 31 at 1:48 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

On Saturday, August 31 at 3:43 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The only StarLino train that might have been observable anywhere near that time was at 5:11 a.m. on Saturday morning. Nothing else was visible in the skies over Choteau around that time. There was definitely nothing in the sky at 10:15 p.m. on Saturday August 31st.

The animation below shows the cluster moving at 11.7x its normal speed.

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Citations

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1f835ml/update_on_the_choteau_…
https://x.com/duriansneedluv2/status/1830991728981275072?t=esqojJHUjt…

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