{"id":194162,"date":"2024-08-06T18:28:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spacexs-new-direct-to-cell-starlink-satellites-are-way-brighter-than-the-originals"},"modified":"2024-08-06T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:28:46","slug":"spacexs-new-direct-to-cell-starlink-satellites-are-way-brighter-than-the-originals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spacexs-new-direct-to-cell-starlink-satellites-are-way-brighter-than-the-originals","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites are way brighter than the originals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-new-direct-to-cell-starlink-satellites-are-way-brighter-than-the-originals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if we can dodge a disaster in orbit by responsibly de-orbiting derelict satellites, many scientists are concerned that the number of objects circling our planet could still do harm: When they deorbit, they could deposit a significant flux of metals that could <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/air-pollution-reentering-space-junk-detected\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/air-pollution-reentering-space-junk-detected\">alter the chemical makeup<\/a> of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffects on astronomy are just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d said Barentine, who says we may be fast approaching a turning point where tragedy becomes imminent, either in space due to a collision or on the ground from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-debris-florida-family-nasa-lawsuit\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-debris-florida-family-nasa-lawsuit\">falling debris<\/a>. \u201cSpace policy-making moves far too slowly to effectively deal with all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, there\u2019s not a lot to look forward to that is positive,\u201d he added. \u201cIf the New Space Age goes badly in the end, history will not look favorably on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if we can dodge a disaster in orbit by responsibly de-orbiting derelict satellites, many scientists are concerned that the number of objects circling our planet could still do harm: When they deorbit, they could deposit a significant flux of metals that could alter the chemical makeup of Earth\u2019s atmosphere. \u201cEffects on astronomy are just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,418,31,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-internet","category-policy","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194162","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=194162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}