Stefan Mileschin

Thunderbolts and lightning say astronomers.

After a two month gap, SpaceX has resumed launching batches of dozens of satellites in its gambit to blanket Earth with high speed internet access but moves to stop them interfering with astronomy are unlikely to work.

The Starlink network of massed satellites all shipped with VisorSat which was designed to make them less shiny to the ground and especially to astronomers' telescopes.

But researchers say the spacecraft's experimental new feature, while helpful, won't fully solve problems posed by the existence of Starlink itself, or other planned thousands strong satellite fleets, for that matter.

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