Spacex ceo elon musk disagrees though attempts to darken starlink satellites have had questionable success.
Starlink spacex. Some types of astronomy may be more affected than others. Spacex starlink is the name of elon musk s ambitious plan to blanket the globe with high speed broadband internet via a network of satellites. If you found this site useful please consider buying me a coffee to help keep the site free of advertisements. Falcon 9 lifted off from space launch complex 40 slc 40 at cape canaveral air force station.
Astrophotographers hate that starlink trains appear in and ruin their long exposure. On thursday evening may 23 spacex launched 60 starlink satellites into orbit on a falcon 9 rocket from cape canaveral air force station in florida. On wednesday june 3 at 9 25 p m. Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by spacex to provide satellite internet access.
While spacex eventually hopes to have as. Spacex will start testing starlink broadband service in a private beta in about three months and make it available in a public beta about six months from now spacex ceo elon musk wrote on twitter. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass produced small satellites in low earth orbit leo working in combination with ground transceivers spacex also plans to sell some of the satellites for military scientific or exploratory purposes. Thanks for using this and enjoy gazing at the beautiful night sky.
Falcon 9 s first stage previously supported the telstar 18 vantage mission in september 2018 the iridium 8 mission in january 2019 and two separate starlink. New research is highlighting what the future holds for astronomers with spacex s full 12 000 satellite starlink constellation in the sky. Enabled by a constellation of low earth orbit satellites starlink will provide fast reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity including those in rural communities and places where existing services are too expensive or unreliable. If there are any questions or problems you can email me at email protected and i can try to help.
The satellites are in good health and are the. Starlink is the name of a satellite network that the private spaceflight company spacex is developing to provide low cost internet to remote locations.