{"id":106158,"date":"2020-04-28T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/spacex-to-test-starlink-sun-visor-to-reduce-brightness"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:51:19","slug":"spacex-to-test-starlink-sun-visor-to-reduce-brightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/spacex-to-test-starlink-sun-visor-to-reduce-brightness","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to test Starlink \u201csun visor\u201d to reduce brightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-test-starlink-sun-visor-to-reduce-brightness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said April 27 that he hopes to test a new way to reduce the brightness of the company\u2019s Starlink satellites on the next launch for the broadband megaconstellation.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing to a committee working on the next astrophysics decadal survey, Musk said the experimental \u201cVisorSat,\u201d along with a new approach for orienting Starlink satellites as they raise their orbits, should address concerns raised by astronomers that the Starlink constellation could interfere with their observations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objectives, generally, are to make the satellites invisible to the naked eye within a week, and to minimize the impact on astronomy, especially so that we do not saturate observatory detectors and inhibit discoveries,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said April 27 that he hopes to test a new way to reduce the brightness of the company\u2019s Starlink satellites on the next launch for the broadband megaconstellation. In a briefing to a committee working on the next astrophysics decadal survey, Musk said the experimental \u201cVisorSat,\u201d along with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}