April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... short 13-second exposures taken within 70 minutes of each other from Waldenburg, Germany, on the night of the Perseids meteor shower 12 August 2018. The image has a field of view of 84 x62 degrees. Most of the dozens of lines are made...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... activity for some. One upon a time it was the thought of seeing a fireball zipping through the atmosphere as a meteor shower passed overhead, that drew people out into the night to stare up into space. Now, armed with...
