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Now multiply that by the 100 satellites the company plans to launch. Now multiply _that_ by the other companies that want to launch satellites.
by jxf 4y ago
Now multiply that by the 100 satellites the company plans to launch. Now multiply _that_ by the other companies that want to launch satellites.
- dotancohen 4y agoYou'll have 100 dark satellites at night, so what? These birds are visible only for an hour or so after sundown and before sunrise.
- jxf 4y agoI think you're forgetting that astronomers care about wavelengths of light other than visible light — that is a very, very narrow range of the spectrum of radiation. In the infrared, for example, every satellite looks like a blazing star. In the radio spectrum, every satellite that transmits signals in this band looks hundreds of thousands of times brighter than a star.