Summary

Petition

• EN. Here is a petition against spoiling the night sky. Please consider signing and sharing it. Same thing in PDF version.
• HUN. Itt a : petíció magyarul. Kérlek írjad alá, osszad meg, és kérjed, hogy akik megkapják, tegyék ugyanezt!
• French version: FR
• Italian version: IT
• Spanish: ES
• Chinese: CN

Links and news below:

• https://www.popsci.com/story/space/spacex-starlink-constellation-satellites-light-pollution/
• New York Times article.
• https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614566/spacex-just-filed-a-request-to-run-30-000-more-starlink-satellites-in-orbit/
• https://www.space.com/see-spacex-starlink-satellites-in-night-sky.html
• https://www.inc.com/cameron-albert-deitch/spacex-starlink-astronomers-shareholders-stakeholders.html
• https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/spacex-starlink-satellite-space-junk-astronomy/
• Space advertising.
• https://www.noao.edu/currents/201911.html#satellites
• https://www.wired.co.uk/article/spacex-starlink-satellites-astronomy
• International Astronomical Union Announcement.
• Interview with Prof. James Lowenthal. Skip to 46:00.
• Response from the International Dark Sky Association
• Starlink satellites on the sky from the Speculoos survey, Chile. Imagine when there are 40,000 of these orbiting Earth, not 120!
• Global Meteor Network, relevant images.
• Starlink Satellites over Missouri, timelapse.
• Timelapse from Farra Observatory, Italy.
• Some say that with this, ground-based astronomy came to an end, and only space-born astronomy has a future. This is entirely wrong. See following Article on Why We Can't Just Do All Of Our Astronomy From Space .
• A strong opinion on How Elon Musk can fix the damage his starlink satellites are causing. . The article focuses on astronomy, but the damage is much wider, affecting nature at far more levels.
• Starlink timelapse taken with a smartphone.
• Starlink satellites trailing above Hawaii.
• Interesting blog from Casey Handmer on technical details and business model.
• ESA had to perform a collision avoidance manoeuvre to avoid collision with Starlink44.
• You can track where the satellites are at this satflare.com page .
• Experimental coatings will be applied to some? of the new satellites, as shown in this article from LA Times
• Brief article on low earth satellites, latencies, and the business model behind.
• American Astronomical Society status update.
• SpaceX decided to paint one of their satellites black. Yes, ONE of the satellites. In my mind, this is a step in the right direction, but is the smallest possible infinitesimal step. They could have painted all black, and there are many other things one could do to eliminate their impact on the night sky.
• Good summary as of Dec 11, 2019 from Forbes.
• Here is the statement of AURA.
• A post from the LA times by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley .
• Excellent article (in Hungarian) about why not all telescopes are in space.
• National Parks are the best places for observing the night sky, as also stated in this news release by the international dark sky association . Yet, the beauty of the night sky will be lost from these dark sky parks once the sky is full of satellites.
• Coverage by Sky and Telescope. Yet, the beauty of the night sky will be lost from these dark sky parks once the sky is full of satellites.
• Starlink satellite tracker page
• Starlink satellite orbit reconfiguration approved.
• Coverage by BBC , quoting OneWeb placing fewer satellites and at higher elevations (1200km) on purpose, not to hurt the night sky.
• Article by Sir Martin Rees. Quoting the best paragraph: But we shouldn’t forget that it’s not just astronomers – a minority – who care about this issue. The night sky, the “vault of heaven”, is the one feature of our environment that has been shared, and wondered at, by all humanity through the ages. We should deplore anything that needlessly degrades its beauty and serenity, just as, more parochially, we don’t want tinsel or phone masts in our national parks.
• Some recent news on the launch of another 60 SpaceX satellites on Jan 6, 2020.
• Only one satellite is painted black.
• The FCC's Approval of SpaceX's Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful Scientific American .
• Distribution of Space Debris .
• Article in Astronomy and Astrophysics, on the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy. .
• Article in the Atlantic, with contribution from Kris Stanek, Ohio State University.
• A new, objective (but somewhat soft) IAU statement from 2020 February, saying that "The IAU considers the consequences of satellite constellations worrisome", and "A great deal of attention is also being given to the protection of the uncontaminated view of the night sky from dark places, which should be considered a non-renounceable world human heritage."
• This is a brief description on China's equivalent of SpaceX/Starlink.
• Australia regulations cleared for Starlink broadcasting internet in Australia.
• Arxiv paper A Flat-Panel Brightness Model for the Starlink Satellites and Measurement of their Absolute Visual Magnitude.
• Arxiv paper The Low Earth Orbit Satellite Population and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation
• Arxiv paper First observations and magnitude measurement of SpaceX's Darksat.
• Arxiv paper Assessing and Minimizing Collisions in Satellite Mega-Constellations
• Arxiv paper Concerns about ground based astronomical observations: a step to safeguard the astronomical sky
• Video: Starlink Passover In Holy Grail Timelapse 2020 03 06

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