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Will starlink spoil astronomy?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Way to Improve the Reflectivity of the Satellite?

Solar power ray, which is like ten meters long, and it's very reflective. So they've rearranged t he direction of the solar ray, so that it's behind the satellite. It catches sun, but it's shielded from the earth by the satellite chasse itself. And so that it also improves the reflectivity. But i imagine that's kind of expensive rias em the satellite has to be actively like moving devise thi blocker all the time. Ye, it costs energy, and it costs more money. That seems to be something they 're willing to do. They're playing lots of games with the positioning of the satellite. One issue is that all this, so far

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