Incredible photos show Elon Musk's Starlink satellites over UK as latest launch is pushed back

STARLINK satellites were recently spotted across the sky despite Sunday's scheduled launch not taking place.

SpaceX blamed the weather and is now planning to blast its next batch of satellites to space on Tuesday.

A live stream event had been planned for Sunday, with SpaceX fans all over the world encouraged to watch the blast off online.

SpaceX tweeted yesterday: "Due to a tropical depression developing off the Southeast Coast of the U.S., now targeting Tuesday, May 19 at 3:10 a.m. EDT for the Starlink mission—

"SpaceX teams will continue monitoring launch and landing weather conditions".

Twitter users claimed to have witnessed Starlink satellites in the sky over the weekend in a number of countries including China, India and New Zealand.

If takeoff goes ahead on Tuesday, the new probes will join an ever-growing network of satellites that will one day beam cheap WiFi to people across the globe.

A Falcon 9 rocket will blast into space carrying 60 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

You should still be able to watch the launch live on the SpaceX website or official YouTube channel.

What is Starlink?

Starlink is a controversial scheme that aims to beam Wi-Fi to people from space using a "mega constellation" of thousands of satellites.

“With performance that far surpasses that of traditional satellite internet … Starlink will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable,” the official website explains.

The project is the brainchild of tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose California-based rocket firm SpaceX builds and operates the satellites.

More than 420 have been launched so far, with the network eventually set to reach 12,000, rising to as many as 42,000 in the future.

SpaceX sends its satellites up in batches of 60 at a time. Each group is launched atop an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX.

The solar-powered tech typically orbits around 340 miles above Earth.

How the probes will affect the night sky is causing concern as they sit in a low orbit, so appear brighter than stars and planets.

In other news, Nasa unveiled the Tesla car that will be taking US astronauts to a rocket launch later this month.

Nasa astronauts will launch into space from US soil in May for the first time in nearly a decade.

And, incredible photos of eerie Martian landscapes have been released online by scientists.

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