{"id":106605,"date":"2020-05-05T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-to-debut-satellite-dimming-sunshade-on-next-starlink-launch"},"modified":"2020-05-05T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:03:33","slug":"spacex-to-debut-satellite-dimming-sunshade-on-next-starlink-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacex-to-debut-satellite-dimming-sunshade-on-next-starlink-launch","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to debut satellite-dimming sunshade on next Starlink launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-debut-satellite-dimming-sunshade-on-next-starlink-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new sunshade, or visor, designed to reduce the brightness of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink broadband Internet satellites will debut on the company\u2019s next launch, a measure intended to alleviate astronomers\u2019 concerns about impacts on observations through ground-based telescopes, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the next launch of Starlink satellites \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/launch-schedule\/\">scheduled for 18 May<\/a> from Cape Canaveral \u2014 SpaceX will try out a new light-blocking panel to make the spacecraft less visible to skywatchers and astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a radio-transparent foam that will deploy nearly upon the satellite being released (from the rocket),\u201d Musk said on 27 April at a virtual meeting of the National Academies\u2019 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 panel, a committee charged with setting the top priorities for US astronomy for the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new sunshade, or visor, designed to reduce the brightness of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink broadband Internet satellites will debut on the company\u2019s next launch, a measure intended to alleviate astronomers\u2019 concerns about impacts on observations through ground-based telescopes, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said. Beginning with the next launch of Starlink satellites \u2014 scheduled for 18 May [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106605","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=106605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}