What's more, the upgraded internet satellites appear to be fainter than their predecessors, which could lead to a less disruptive view of the night skies.
“SpaceX has extensively worked on improving the dimness of the sats, and [study author Anthony] Mallama’s observations appear—to suggest they have been successful,” Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo in an email.SpaceX currently has 4,265 satellites in orbit and wants to send tens of thousands more to low Earth orbit.
The orbiting satellites reflect sunlight, thereby adding a lot of noise to images captured by ground-based observatories,The company has been working with the Federation of Astronomical Societies to dim its satellites in an effort to make them less disruptive for astronomers, agreeing to keep their magnitude at a maximum of seven to alleviate the issue. The study found that the V2 Minis were at a brightness magnitude of 6.
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