Ich habe das hier nicht gepostet gesehen. Die Begründung wird hier ausführlicher erläutert (Vizepräsident für Technik bei Starlink): https://xcancel.com/michaelnicollsx/status/2006790372681220530
Ich fand den Grund interessant (das Sonnenminimum erhöht die Zerfallszeit der Umlaufbahn). Ich frage mich, ob sie ihre Umlaufbahnen im nächsten Sonnenzyklus wieder erhöhen werden.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/starlink-plans-lower-satellite-orbit-enhance-safety-2026-2026-01-01/
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Nothing to do with „Space safety“
Kind of odd that they are doing this now, when we are just barely past the solar maximum and maybe around 5 years from reaching the next solar minimum. Perhaps they’ll lower them further when we actually get close to the minimum near the end of the decade.
How will this affect astronomical observations?
Great let’s open the data up to everyone and see how that goes.. It will be hacked at some point anyways so let’s just start with transparency about what exactly is being surveilled.
So this is an admission that the starlink satellites which recently had a malfunction do not have a decay time of one year.. but four plus.
So they need to get the shell tighter so they decay in one year instead.