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SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet project may create hundreds of visible objects that constantly move across dark night skies

s had accepted his paper for publication. His model suggests that at any moment "several hundred" of SpaceX's 12,000 planned satellites may be visible from locations with dark night skies and good visibility of the horizon.

"They'll be about the same as the fainter stars that you can make out. But I still think that's going to be dramatic," McDowell told Business Insider. "One or two you wouldn't notice, but 200 that faint moving across the sky? You'll sort of start to notice that the sky is swimming." While that may seem logical, McDowell says the talking point ignores how big , shiny, and relatively close objects can reflect much more sunlight than ones in higher orbits above Earth.

, which he defines as lower than 600 kilometers above the planet. Remaining ones would layer in a zone he calls "upper LEO," or above 600 kilometers in altitude.

 

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