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LOCAL Monday 15 July 2024
Project to Renovate Palm Beach Tower to Begin July 13

Minister Dangui Oduber an- istry of Tourism, together with the
nounced that the renovation of the Aruba Tourism Authority, sought
Palm Beach Tower, located right the necessary funds to repair the
in front of the Riu Antillas Hotel, will tower and platform. This time, ma-
begin on July 13. This project will terials that will last a long time will
last until July 25, 2024, with the ren- be used.
ovation being carried out by local
artist Paul Wong. Like other proj- Access to the Palm Beach Tower
ects currently ongoing around our will be restricted during this short
island, this is also a project that is period. However, once com-
part of the beautification and im- pleted, it will become another at-
provement of Aruba’s offerings. traction for our locals and tourists.
Surely another small but impactful
The tower was repaired back in beautiful project.
2018 through a collaboration with
Riu Hotel, which contributed half of Tourism remains the driver of our
the necessary funds at that time. economy, and therefore it is ex-
Unfortunately, the repairs made tremely important for us to keep
back then did not last long. Due investing in Aruba’s offerings. Minis-
to bad weather and natural ac- ter Oduber continues to ensure the
tions, the tower is once again in repair and beautification of vari-
poor condition and needs to be ous areas on our island.
repaired. For this reason, the Min-

Bright light spotted in Aruba’s night sky over the weekend

Last Saturday evening, around 8 Curacao, displaying white, yellow, ed orbit. It is expected that the sat-
PM, many people observed a light and green colors. The Space and ellites will fall back to Earth. If this
crossing the sky over Aruba. Pho- Nature Aruba Foundation suggest- is the case, more remnants may
tos and videos of this phenomenon ed that this could be the remnants enter the atmosphere in the com-
quickly went viral on social media. of the recent Starlink launch on ing days.
According to the Space and Na- July 12, which experienced a fail-
ture Aruba Foundation, this might ure according to SpaceX. According to the company itself,
be the remnants of the recent Star- “The satellites will burn up in the there is no reason for panic. The
link launch on July 12. atmosphere,” said the foundation. Falcon 9 launched from Califor-
The malfunction left the rocket’s nia last Thursday evening, carry-
The brilliant object was seen in the payload of 20 Starlink V.2 mini sat- ing 20 Starlink satellites. After a few
skies of Aruba and other islands like ellites unable to reach their intend- minutes of flight, the upper stage
motor failed. Last Friday, SpaceX
attributed the incident to a liquid
oxygen leak.

Additionally, SpaceX stated that
the satellites would re-enter the at-
mosphere and burn up. More than astronomers detected this aster-
600 Starlink satellites are in orbit, oid flying close to Earth in Tucson,
currently providing internet service Arizona, traveling at 47,921 kilome-
to clients in some of the most re- ters per hour. Although it was very
mote places in the world. close to Earth, scientists believe it is
not a threat to the planet, accord-
It might also have been an aster- ing to the website WION.
oid, as NASA issued a warning after
detecting an asteroid named 2024 Photos can be found on the Space
NB2, which passed close to Earth and Nature Aruba Foundation’s
last Saturday, July 13. However, Facebook page.

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