Why don't satellites cast visible shadows?

Take a piece of thread, a piece of white paper and find a lamp, put the thread in front of the lamp and see if it casts a shadow. The problem is that the light source is bigger than the object by many orders of magnitude. The light cast from the sun wipes out any shadow. read more

Take a piece of thread, a piece of white paper and find a lamp, put the thread in front of the lamp and see if it casts a shadow. The problem is that the light source is bigger than the object by many orders of magnitude. read more

So if the satellite is between you and the sun it's not blocking out the whole sun, just a tiny spec of it. You're in the shadows that the satellite is casting for each point on the sun that the satellite is covering from your perspective, but you're out of the shadows that the satellite is casting for every other point. read more