Jan 22, 2022
SpaceX Starlink: Why humanity needs to act now before it’s too late
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks, internet, satellites
We will soon need to make some difficult choices.
Given current trends, that number will be reached within a year or so. There are ways to mitigate the effect of these streaks. Painting the satellites and adding reflective panels could reduce their brightness, particularly at infrared wavelengths that are important for near-Earth asteroid detection.
But the study points out that the mitigation strategy currently proposed by Starlink won’t be sufficient to avoid an impact on astronomy.
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