The problem of satellite swarms in low-Earth orbit appears to be getting worse.
As if that's not bad enough, the satellite, named BlueWalker3, is only a prototype, and the company behind it – US-based AST SpaceMobile – wants to build a whole constellation of these things.
will be in Earth orbit by 2030, which will dramatically alter the night sky. Starlink is trying to minimize the impact of its satellites, at least, coating them with paint that reduces their brightness and Nandakumar and her colleagues took observations of the satellite as it got into position, jettisoned its LVA, and deployed. BlueWalker 3 started off pretty bright, with a magnitude of 1 – brighter than theframeborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen>
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