bco2003 said:
benMath08 said:
Is this chain the new satellites with less reflective coating?
Supposedly 40 or 41 Starlinks were flying over tonight, but 60 were launched with the "sun visors," so I'm guessing tonight's were not them.
So the experimental coating was tested on one satellite in January and they haven't switched to that yet. The visors and solar panel angle changes don't start until launch 9 on June 12. So no idea why I couldn't see them going pretty much straight overhead and that just about guarantees we won't see future ones from our house. Bummer.
" We are taking some key steps to reduce satellite brightness btw. Should be much less noticeable during orbit raise by changing solar panel angle & all sats get sunshades starting with launch 9." - Elon Musk in April