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Sep 22, 2023
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Astronomers believe green lights seen over Hawaii were lasers from a Chinese  satellite | Stars and Stripes

Remember how the year started out weird? During January, Hawaiians saw these spectacular beams of light in the sky. Within a few weeks, it turned out to be a Chinese satellite, Daqi-1, launched in April 2022 and carrying LIDAR (laser imaging, detection, and ranging) “for detecting atmospheric aerosols and carbon dioxide,” according to Sascha Brodsky at …

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