If you even have a small knowledge of night sky and astronomy in general, you have heard for sure about “Iridium Flare” phenomenon. Since 1997 the Iridium SSC company has launched in orbit around the Earth a total of 95 satellites (operatives and spares) in order to realize a constellation composed of 66 telecommunications satellites (called “IRIDIUM”) that allowed the achieve of what until then had not yet been possible: to reach by phone any corner of the world thanks to the use of a satellite device.

An interesting feature of this fleet of satellites was that, having being equipped with three antennas with large reflecting surfaces, in certain conditions they were able to divert to the Earth the sunlight that invests directly clone rolex day date mens 128345 rolex calibre 2813 13mm generating an unmistakable bright flare of a few seconds that could be seen by naked eye at night, even in the city with a large light pollution. This phenomenon was named “Iridium Flare”.

After more than 20 years of honourable service, Iridium Communication (born from the ashes of the previous company), completed in late 2019 the planned divestment of the first-generation satellites switching them with a more modern second-generation version called “IRIDIUM NEXT” which, unfortunatelly, are not able to generated the famous flares.