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Astronomers find SpaceX satellites are contaminating pictures of space more than ever before - The Independent
Jan 18, 2022 50 secs
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While there were only 100 Starlink satellites in orbit, a track would only be found once every ten days.

However, when Starlink quickly grew to over 1,500 satellites in orbit, the ZTF would commonly find over 200 tracks in the same timeframe, Ars Technica reports.

It is estimated that while there is only a 0.04 percent chance that a rare event may not be spotted because of Starlink satellites, the issue could get significantly worse as more companies such as OneWeb or Amazon Kuiper launch competing networks.

SpaceX already has approval to launch over 10,000, at which point every image at twilight will likely contain a Starlink track.

At 40,000 satellites, all twilight images are likely to have four tracks?

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