The company has been working with an observatory and the US National Science Foundation to study the effects of lowering its satellites to 350km (217 miles) versus 550km.
Read how astrophysicist Ethan Siegel thinks SpaceX can fix the damage Starlink satellites are causing to astronomy, published in Forbes. Boley, A., Byers, M. Satellite mega-constellations create ...
To this end, the company is lowering their orbit, as Starlink announced in a letter ... of the increasing number of satellites on optical astronomy. As a test group, 300 satellites were placed ...