SpaceX’s efforts to dim its Starlink satellites will likely be effective, at least for one major observatory. But the ...

About the mission The 21 satellites will be heading to low-Earth orbit, where there are more than 6,000 already there. SpaceX owns the Starlink company.

The Starlink company is owned by SpaceX. Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been tracking Starlink satellites.