Assessment of Brightness Mitigation Practices for Starlink Satellites — mentioned by schiffern

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:11:23 GMT

> the astronomical community on the other hand as far as I'm aware expected this Huh I didn't realize that. Do you have a source handy? I couldn't find it in my brief literature search.[0] I found a couple references to Starlink brightness from 2019, but they're all after the first operational launch. > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.14152.pdf seems to be the latest review I found on the issue, with Post-VisorSat being worse than VisorSat Yes SpaceX needed to delete the visors to add laser hardware, so they developed a novel space-rated dielectric mirror as the new mitigation method. That was…

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Assessment of Brightness Mitigation Practices for Starlink Satellites — mentioned by aragilar

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:54:11 GMT

I'm totally fine believing SpaceX/Starlink did not expect it, the astronomical community on the other hand as far as I'm aware expected this and has been raising issues with SpaceX/Starlink the whole time (source: am an astronomer). As for things getting significantly better, that'd be news for me as well (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.14152.pdf seems to be the latest review I found on the issue, with Post-VisorSat being worse than VisorSat, and worries about Gen 2 sats).

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Assessment of Brightness Mitigation Practices for Starlink Satellites — mentioned by schiffern

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