Come to think about it, were there any research on what reflective surface makes a satellite brighter than others? The old Iridium Flares (now gone) were caused by a special reflector on the sats, yet no other satellites had such bright reflections. @planet4589 @Marco_Langbroek
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One more thing - I think we all are surprised that the Starlink sats can easily reach mag. 2-4 consistently around the terminator given their size. Other similar LEO comsats (e.g. the new ones of
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Could it be that the "plate" configuration of these satellites caused stronger reflection of sunlight towards the Earth?
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Also one tangential question: we have had lots of novels, movies, animations, games on a future with lots of things orbiting around Earth or another planet, but I've yet to see one that predicted new artifical fast-moving stars in the night sky. Are there any examples of that?
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