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17 January 2022

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[ 10 January 2022 ] Webb mirrors fully deployed, clearing the way for alignment News
[ 5 January 2022 ] ‘We nailed it!’ Webb clears major hurdle with full sunshade deployment News
[ 3 January 2022 ] NASA holds up final Webb sunshade deploy to double check readiness News
[ 31 December 2021 ] Webb ready for critical work to open sunshield News
[ 31 December 2021 ] Video: Keith Parrish, Webb’s commissioning manager, talks through telescope deployments News

RAS warns of growing light pollution as satellite fleets expand

1 April 2021 Astronomy Now

Growing fleets of satellites in low-Earth orbit threaten to increase overall skyglow, a new study concludes, raising the prospect of light pollution across large areas.

SpaceX to debut satellite-dimming sunshade on next Starlink launch

5 May 2020 Stephen Clark

A new sunshade, or visor, designed to reduce the brightness of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband Internet satellites will debut on the company’s next launch, a measure intended to alleviate astronomers’ concerns about impacts on observations through ground-based telescopes, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said.