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I don't know how practical or useful this idea is, but I wonder how useful a camera on the back of the Starlink satellites would be, looking up.
by LeoPanthera 7y ago
I don't know how practical or useful this idea is, but I wonder how useful a camera on the back of the Starlink satellites would be, looking up.
- mkl 7y agoI think it would be pretty useless. It's not the camera you need, but the telescope, which would be too heavy to justify on these tiny satellites.
- sq_ 7y agoAfter the first Starlink launch, Musk made a number of comments about being willing to experiment with launching some telescope-equipped Starlink sats since they expect the per-sat costs to be so low. If you had dozens to hundreds up there, you could probably do some useful interferometry even with small telescopes.