Brutkey

@raucao@kosmos.social

@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Starlink satellites are de-orbited after ~5 years already. Which means most of the very bright first-gen ones have already been replaced by newer ones that are ~70% less bright, due to adding visors (since June 2020) as well as more mitigation features later.

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

@raucao@kosmos.social @skyglowberlin@fediscience.org Dude you're completely wrong about Starlink satellites being less bright now: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00107

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

@raucao@kosmos.social @skyglowberlin@fediscience.org And Starlink quietly stopped using visors many years ago. And made their satellites bigger, and bigger, and bigger.