This Radio Telescope Is Coexisting With Starlink, But for How Long?
6 hours ago · November 12, 2024. Green Bank Telescope (Credit: National Radio Astronomy Observatory/Green Bank Observatory) Can Starlink and astronomy coexist? The rise of "mega-constellations" has sparked ...
Radio pollution from SpaceX's new Starlink satellites poses threat …
Sep 19, 2024 · SpaceX's new Starlink satellites produce 32 times more radio noise than their predecessors, causing concerns among astronomers about their interference with radio astronomy observations.
Starlink satellites’ leaky radio waves obscure the cosmos - Science News
Sep 30, 2024 · Starlink satellites unintentionally emit radio waves that appear more than 10 million times brighter than natural sources, as seen by ground-based radio telescopes.
Starlink already threatens optical astronomy. Now, radio
Oct 9, 2020 · The rocket company SpaceX has already launched hundreds of Starlink satellites, the first "megaconstellation" intended to provide internet service to remote areas. The satellites have aroused the ire of optical astronomers because of the bright streaks they leave across telescopes' fields of view. Now, radio astronomers are worried, too.
Second-gen Starlink satellites leak 30 times more radio …
Sep 18, 2024 · New observations with the LOFAR radio telescope, the biggest radio telescope on Earth observing at low frequencies, have shown that the second generation V2-mini Starlink satellites emit up...
'Unintended' radiation from Starlink satellites may disturb radio ...
Jul 6, 2023 · Hum from onboard electronics that power SpaceX's internet-beaming Starlink satellites may disturb radio astronomy observations, a new study has found. Experts have long warned about how...
Starlink Satellites Risk Blotting Out Radio Telescopes ... - PCMag
Sep 19, 2024 · The astronomers warn that second-generation Starlink satellites can "emit up to 32 times brighter unintended radio waves" compared to first-generation satellites used from 2019 to 2021.
‘Worst nightmare’: Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could blind radio ...
Sep 18, 2024 · Leaking radio emissions from SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are impeding observations by some ground-based radio telescopes and may eventually blind them, a new study using the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has found.
Radio Astronomers Raise Alarm Bells Over SpaceX's Cellular Starlink ...
May 31, 2024 · Scientists fear cellular satellites from SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile will interfere with and even damage their radio astronomy equipment.
Musk's satellites 'blocking' view of the universe - BBC
Sep 18, 2024 · The new generation of Starlink satellites, which provide fast internet around the world, are interfering more with radio telescopes than earlier versions, they say. The thousands of orbiting...
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