{"id":143228,"date":"2022-07-31T04:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/spacex-shares-how-its-making-starlink-satellite-less-bright"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T15:57:04","slug":"spacex-shares-how-its-making-starlink-satellite-less-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/spacex-shares-how-its-making-starlink-satellite-less-bright","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX shares how it\u2019s making Starlink satellite less bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-shares-how-its-making-starlink-satellite-less-bright2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX shared how it\u2019s making its Starlink satellites less bright. The space exploration company published a document titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/BrightnessMitigationBestPracticesSatelliteOperators.pdf\">Brightness Mitigation Best Practices for Satellite Operators<\/a> that outlines how it\u2019s working with the astronomy community to reduce light pollution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> New document from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpaceX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/BrightnessMitigationBestPracticesSatelliteOperators.pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/BrightnessMitigationBestPracticesSatelliteOperators.pdf\">https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/BrightnessMitigationBe\u2026rators.pdf<\/a><\/a> explaining what they have been doing to make their satellites less bright. I applaud SpaceX for their work on this (and for making the document public), while remaining concerned to see how bright the Gen2 Starlinks end up being.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan McDowell (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\">@planet4589<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\/status\/1553107664565157889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX shared how it\u2019s making its Starlink satellites less bright. The space exploration company published a document titled, Brightness Mitigation Best Practices for Satellite Operators that outlines how it\u2019s working with the astronomy community to reduce light pollution. New document from @SpaceX https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/BrightnessMitigationBe\u2026rators.pdf explaining what they have been doing to make their satellites less bright. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143228","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=143228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143256,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143228\/revisions\/143256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}