{"id":48092,"date":"2026-10-16T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48092"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:20:23","slug":"spaceweather-com-news-and-information-about-meteor-showers-solar-flares-auroras-and-near-earth-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48092","title":{"rendered":"SPACE MIRROR DRESS REHEARSAL: SpaceWeather.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An outlandishly bad idea, you say? The FCC approved their first satellite, E\u00e4rendil-1, in July, with launch tentatively scheduled for the second quarter of 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2026\/15oct26\/mirror_med.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/?tab=news\">SpaceWeather.com &#8212; News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so another 50,000 satellites in orbit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>see also&#8230;<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here for my list of known satellite to be launched by SpaceccX, Blue Origin, and others<\/a>.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=4246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018This Is Not Cool!\u2019 \u2013 Astronomers Despair As SpaceX Starlink Train Ruins Observation Of Nearby Galaxies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta (closing line of the article is dry &amp; depressing&#8230;):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E\u00e4rendil-1 won\u2019t work like a spotlight. From 625 km up, a single mirror can light a target for only about 5 minutes per pass. An all-night search would need a relay of satellites. This is one reason <strong><em>the company wants 50,000 of them by 2035<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astronomers should finish their work before then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: SpaceWeather.com &#8212; News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[34,457,2275],"class_list":["post-48092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-astronomy","tag-satellites","tag-space-force","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48092\/revisions\/48102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}