Friday 8 May 2020

SpaceX Plans Sunshades to Save Night Skies From Starlink Satellites

SpaceX Plans Sunshades to Save Night Skies From Starlink Satellites

Perhaps the night sky has been saved. SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by Elon Musk, announced changes last week to a constellation of tens of thousands of internet satellites it plans to send to orbit. The alterations could prevent these false stars from polluting our views of the heavens and interfering with the science of astronomy — though issues remain for scientists to contend with.

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