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On my early morning walk I can see the satellites as very bright (much brighter than the stars) line across the sky. It's clear they didn't do enough about the

by mempko 6y ago

On my early morning walk I can see the satellites as very bright (much brighter than the stars) line across the sky. It's clear they didn't do enough about the reflectivity issue. Edit: Already downvoted for stating a fact. Amazing. Edit: Changed 'did nothing' to 'didn't do enough' Edit: Looks like experts still believe reflectivity is still a problem: https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-are-better-but-not-perfect-say-astronomers/ https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...

jws 6y ago
When the satellites are transitioning to their service orbits they are not in the low reflectivity orientation.
_Microft 6y ago
They only adjust to an orientation in which reflectivity is reduced once they have reached their proper orbits. You most likely observed them while they were still boosting themselves to these orbits. The statement that you saw a "bright line" makes it sounds like they were launched recently as they spread out after a while. The boosting process takes a few weeks.
coiledsnake 6y ago
> On my early morning walk I can see the satellites as very bright (much brighter than the stars) line across the sky. No you do not. Satellites, when visible by the naked eye, are seen as point sources of light. Dots, not lines. One of two things has happened here: Either you saw meteor showers and mistook them for satellites (meteors move fast enough to be seen as lines, not points of light) or you saw long-exposure photographs of satellites online, assumed that is what it would look like through your eyeballs as well, and BSed your story about seeing them yourself. > Edit. Already downvoted for stating a fact. More likely you were downvoted for either being mistaken or for lying.
- mempko 6y ago
  > No you do not. Satellites, when visible by the naked eye, are seen as point sources of light. Dots, not lines. It was 60 satellites spaced together very closely after they were ejected from the rocket. From far away they look like a bright line just like the pixels of your monitor look like a line (even though they are just dots).
ben_w 6y ago
“Did nothing” is different from “didn’t do enough”: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abc0e9 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abc0e9
jiofih 6y ago
How can you tell Starlink from the other 6000 satellites in space right now? That’s an amazing skill. If you saw a tight line of satellites, those have just been launched and are not in their final (higher) orbit.
topkeks 6y ago
Are you a TSLAQ retard, because you seem to be complaining about Musk and Tesla in every thread?
anchpop 6y ago
> Already downvoted for stating a fact. Amazing "Didn't do enough" is an opinion, and the satellites you saw were ones that hadn't reoriented themselves and so aren't representative of how they'll look in the long term as you implied they are
- mempko 6y ago
  Ok, but it's not just my opinion. https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-are-better-but-not-perfect-say-astronomers/ https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...

by mempko 6y ago

jws 6y ago

When the satellites are transitioning to their service orbits they are not in the low reflectivity orientation.

_Microft 6y ago

They only adjust to an orientation in which reflectivity is reduced once they have reached their proper orbits. You most likely observed them while they were still boosting themselves to these orbits. The statement that you saw a "bright line" makes it sounds like they were launched recently as they spread out after a while. The boosting process takes a few weeks.

coiledsnake 6y ago

> On my early morning walk I can see the satellites as very bright (much brighter than the stars) line across the sky. No you do not. Satellites, when visible by the naked eye, are seen as point sources of light. Dots, not lines. One of two things has happened here: Either you saw meteor showers and mistook them for satellites (meteors move fast enough to be seen as lines, not points of light) or you saw long-exposure photographs of satellites online, assumed that is what it would look like through your eyeballs as well, and BSed your story about seeing them yourself. > Edit. Already downvoted for stating a fact. More likely you were downvoted for either being mistaken or for lying.

mempko 6y ago
> No you do not. Satellites, when visible by the naked eye, are seen as point sources of light. Dots, not lines. It was 60 satellites spaced together very closely after they were ejected from the rocket. From far away they look like a bright line just like the pixels of your monitor look like a line (even though they are just dots).

ben_w 6y ago

“Did nothing” is different from “didn’t do enough”: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abc0e9 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abc0e9

jiofih 6y ago

How can you tell Starlink from the other 6000 satellites in space right now? That’s an amazing skill. If you saw a tight line of satellites, those have just been launched and are not in their final (higher) orbit.

topkeks 6y ago

Are you a TSLAQ retard, because you seem to be complaining about Musk and Tesla in every thread?

anchpop 6y ago

> Already downvoted for stating a fact. Amazing "Didn't do enough" is an opinion, and the satellites you saw were ones that hadn't reoriented themselves and so aren't representative of how they'll look in the long term as you implied they are

mempko 6y ago
Ok, but it's not just my opinion. https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-are-better-but-not-perfect-say-astronomers/ https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...