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June 2nd 2021

Last night, at 02h12 UT a bright fireball crossed the skies of Córdoba province in South Spain.

This object was registered with the SMART Project's detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Seville and Madrid observatories.

As it happened in other occasions, this fireball could be also registered with one of the Calar Alto Observatory (Almería) external surveillance webcams.

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May 15th 2021

Last May 14th 2021, at 02h25 UT, a bright fireball flew above west part of Mediterranean Sea.

The fireball could be registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville observatories.

Calar Alto Observatory South external surveillance webcam could also record the event.

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May 7th 2021

On May 4th, 2021, shortly before 11 pm (Central European Summer Time), the Calar Alto webcam pointing North recorded this video showing a curious phenomenon, visible to the naked eye. Daniel Marín, an expert in astronautics, identified that it was a Falcon 9 rocket from the SpaceX company, launched from Cape Canaveral (USA) on the same day at 9 pm CEST. This partially reusable rocket carried on board 60 satellites for the Starlink broadband project.

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April 23rd 2021

Last April 23rd 2021, at 04h03 UT, a nice Lyrid flew above Mediterranean Sea, just in front of Murcia Region coasts.

This object could be registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville observatories.

Calar Alto Observatory northeast external surveillance webcam could also follow this event.