AARO increasingly receives cases that it is able to resolve to the Starlink satellite constellation, highlighting the challenges posed by contemporary air traffic.
When SpaceX releases Starlink satellites in orbit, the spacecraft are initially clustered together and reflect more sunlight down to Earth, making them easier to see.
We found some of those correlations in time, the direction that they were looking, and the location; we were able to assess that they were looking at Starlink flares.
AARO is investigating if other unresolved cases may be attributed to the expansion of the Starlink and other mega-constellations in low-Earth orbit.
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