alt Hacker NewsStarlink satellites are intentionally designed to be very dark, but they become more visible when the sun is about to come up or if there are super bright light sources on the ground nearby to reflect off of them.
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garbagewoman • today at 12:20 AM
Thats a nice intent i guess but doesn’t seem to work well in practice
If there are super bright light sources on the ground nearby that are bright enough to produce a visible reflection off a satellite, you are about to be dead.