Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky

AST SpaceMobile says it is working with US astronomers and America's National Science Foundation (NSF) to mitigate the impact of satellites on observations, after a prototype became one of the brightest objects in the sky a couple of years back. The Texas-based satellite maker intends to deploy an additional 60 or so sats into …

[beast666]

Hope the NSF director didn't let the door hit him on the way out.

[Wexford]

Maybe it swung back and hit the orange turd in the face, like that time he was in prison for rape or fraud or whatever other felony he'd just been done for.

God that was funny...right in his big dumb orange face. WINNING!

[Andrew Scott]

it's sort of unfair, when dei is the only reason for the orange peanut to be in the white house. he certainly isn't there because of his competence.

[IGotOut]

Slap...

...some VantaBlack on there and be done.

May get a little toasty inside though.

[Sleep deprived]

Mick Jagger foresaw it decades ago

Paint it black!

[s. pam]

Why can’t they just paint the damn

Things flat matte black so I don’t keep seeing them reflecting in my telescope? Or is that solution so incredibly simple there’s some inane reason why not?

[imanidiot]

Re: Why can’t they just paint the damn

It's really really hard to create a flat matte black that both stays flat black and can deal with the heat of being in pace. Not to mention the fact that things like solar panels can't be flat matte black because they wouldn't work. And then there's the thermal issues of having a near perfect black body absorber to really sock up every single joule of incident solar thermal energy.

[Hurn]

AST?

Err.. didn't AST used to make ISA cards for x86 PC's, way back when?

Sorry, wrong AST.

Still have a card or two of theirs around here, somewhere...