Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites continue to be launched at a high rate, exponentially increasing the number in orbit.  In the past few years satellite operators have introduced new technology, such as direct-to-cell, and are building and launching much larger satellites.  The result is more and brighter satellites. The impact on Rubin science will be in lost rare object discovery and an increase in bogus events. To quantify the impact on astronomy, full observing simulations are being carried out.  Now is the time for the science communiy to become involved in studying the impact on their science programs.

This session will bring together Rubin scientists and engineers from SpaceX in a discussion of the mitigation challenges. Technical and policy issues and opportunities will be discussed.

Chair:  Tony Tyson (UC Davis, Rubin Obs.)         Co-Chair:  Rachel Street (LCO)

Speakers:

  1100 Tony Tyson,  Introduction
  1108 Meredith Rawls (U. Wash., Rubin Obs.) Overview
  1120 Ashley VanderLey (NSF) Regulatory Considerations
  1130 David Goldstein (SpaceX) Starlink Constellation Update
  1140 Forrest Fankhauser (UC Davis, SpaceX) Predicting Satellite Brightness
  1150 Adam Snyder (UC Davis) Satellite Streak Masking Challenge

  1200-1230 Discussion

Posters:

  Daniel Polin, et al.  (UC Davis) LEOsat LSST camera crosstalk
  Phan Kandula, et al. (UC Davis) Effect of LEOsat streaks on LSST data
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