[AR] Re: Starlink Insulation
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:26:35 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, I wrote:
Painting one satellite black out of 240...
Update on this: apparently any difference between the black-painted one
and the others will show up only *after* orbit raising is finished...
And the bottom line turns out to be: "Darkstar" is about 45% as bright as
an unmodified Starlink from the same launch. Which is helpful but not
nearly enough: the astronomers would like something more like 5% to avoid
major disruption of sky surveys.
Henry
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