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When talking about the affect on children viewing the satellites amongst the stars she said: “it’s cool for them to see a Starlink. But they should be looking at Saturn, at the moon. .. and not want to be interrupted.”

The coating solution being applied to one of the satellites in the third batch is just the first attempt at finding a solution for the unforeseen problem.

“No one thought of this,” Ms Shotwell said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.”

The experimental coating still may affect its performance, so that is something that will be examined, Ms Shotwell admitted “It definitely changes the performance of the satellite, thermally. It’ll be some trial and error but we’ll fix it.”