The Brightness of Starlink Mini Satellites During Orbit-Raising — mentioned by xoa

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:51:00 GMT

Can't tell if you're joking or not, but SpaceX has indeed been collaborating with astronomical observatories to reduce the apparent magnitude (brightness) to ground for Starlink satellites. It's not as if the potential issues weren't apparent and reported on pretty early on, ie, [0] in summer 2020 before the network entered beta. It's not perfect and the period during orbit raising before the satellites enter operational orbits is more challenging, but very significant reductions have been achieved per recs, see for example "Starlink Gen 2 Mini Satellites Photometric Characterization" [1] in…

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The Brightness of Starlink Mini Satellites During Orbit-Raising — mentioned by xoa