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Locate the “SpaceX’s Starlink” section and choose the mission you’re interested in (the number after the letter ‘L’ is the number of the launch).After you launch the app, tap the satellite icon in the upper right corner of the screen and then tap “All”.

We recommend you use the Satellite Tracker app to hunt for Starlink: You can easily see them with the naked eye if you know where and when to look. Starlink satellites offer a spectacular sight – they look like a train of bright spots in the night sky. As for the second problem, Elon Musk said that the satellites are designed to deorbit within five years in the case of failure. Now, all the satellites beginning with the Starlink-8 mission have anti-reflective surfaces. In response to the first concern, SpaceX has already tested two prototype satellites with darkened surfaces: DarkSat and VisorSat. Another problem is that so many objects can potentially collide with each other creating space junk. This can hinder the work of professional astronomers whose images of the sky will be contaminated with satellites. If SpaceX’s plan succeeds, our skies will be swarmed with man-made objects reflecting light. Already, there are about 5,000 satellites in the Earth’s orbit. There have been debates about the potential problems that Starlink satellites can create. Is it OK to launch such a large number of Starlink satellites? You can read about previous Starlink missions in our article. Eventually, SpaceX plans to build a massive 12,000-satellite constellation, with a possible later extension of the number to 42,000.

As of today, 13 batches have been sent into space, and now 775 solar-powered satellites are orbiting the Earth. The satellites are launched into orbit by batches.

It has been developed and constructed by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX since 2015. Starlink is a huge satellite system that aims at providing even the most remote areas of the Earth with high-speed Internet service.