How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images
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#2Weirdly, HN itself removed the "how" when I just copy pasted in the title and I had to edit it back in...
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#4Weirdly, HN itself removed the "how" when I just copy pasted in the title and I had to edit it back in...
That’s intentional and I think it’s because most articles on the form “how x something something y” don’t actually explain how at all. Even when they do explain how, the title is often just as good without the word how.
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#5"SpaceX, an aerospace company in Hawthorne, California, has already launched more than 650 of a planned 12,000 Starlink satellites. Other operators include the London-based OneWeb, which has launched 74 of what it hopes will be a gigantic fleet of 48,000 satellites, and Amazon, which last month received US government approval to launch 3,236 satellites for its planned Kuiper service."
We need to do something about millionaires. Urgently. But also global governance: space is not US's backyard.
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#6"SpaceX, an aerospace company in Hawthorne, California, has already launched more than 650 of a planned 12,000 Starlink satellites. Other operators include the London-based OneWeb, which has launched 74 of what it hopes will be a gigantic fleet of 48,000 satellites, and Amazon, which last month received US government approval to launch 3,236 satellites for its planned Kuiper service." We need to do something about mi…
> We need to do something about millionaires. Urgently.
Can you elaborate what premise this conclusion follows from? And what do you want to do about them?
And going out on a limb, I would assume you have a problem with the satellites, but Amazon, SpaceX and OneWeb are companies, not a Millionaires. So maybe you meant to say we should do something about companies?
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#7This is bad. This is really really bad. The EU has invested billions in telescopes and that's now going to go to waste. Instead advancing human knowledge it's just going to fill rich guy pockets even more.
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#8"SpaceX, an aerospace company in Hawthorne, California, has already launched more than 650 of a planned 12,000 Starlink satellites. Other operators include the London-based OneWeb, which has launched 74 of what it hopes will be a gigantic fleet of 48,000 satellites, and Amazon, which last month received US government approval to launch 3,236 satellites for its planned Kuiper service." We need to do something about mi…
I don't think it has anything to do with millionaires. Satellite internet has demand. It will happen no matter what.
What we need is a global regulation for satellite brightness. It was never truly a problem until now, and sadly, these type of legislation tend to happen after the problem already arose instead of anticipating it.
The sky will probably be screwed for a while until we have a global standard.
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#9I believe it would be difficult to further prevent this from happening since there is so much more demand for global, low-latency wireless internet than for astronomical observations.
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#10What I'm concerned about is how much the launching of tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of satellites will affect our ability to launch things out of orbit. Launch windows are already very precisely calculated, and the more junk we put in orbit the harder that will become.