Brightness Characterization for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellites — mentioned by DylanSp

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:26:58 GMT

I'm curious if SpaceX has applied those mitigation techniques yet. I could maybe understand not doing it for the initial test batch of 6 DTC satellites, but they've been continuing to launch more, and they should be taking at least some action by now, like those "routine mitigation techniques". There's apparently up to >100 DTC sats in orbit now (see [1] and [2]); I can't figure out from the study [3] exactly when the astronomers took their measurements, but it seems like they were able to see most of the DTC sats. It's not great if SpaceX is delaying their mitigations, this isn't exactly a…

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Brightness Characterization for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellites — mentioned by DylanSp

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:14:41 GMT

Took me a moment to parse the article and find a link to the study, here it is: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.03092.

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Brightness Characterization for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellites — mentioned by DylanSp

Brightness Characterization for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellites — mentioned by DylanSp