Maybe "optical stealth paint" will become standard satellite equipment very, very soon.... (wasn't a certain MISTY suspected of using something like that in the 1990s?)https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1132401138257547271 …
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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My first guess was the shiny machined metal that was shown in the prelaunch pichttps://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1131748249763639296 …
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....but most satellites uses metallic thermal reflective foil on the exterior anyway, even with big sheets of radiators on a common GEO comsat.

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