SpaceX’s Starlink satellites spark fights between astronomy, spaceflight fans

[kladner]

In a link in one of these articles, probably to Twitter, I saw a complaint from a radio astronomy student that these satellites emit on two frequency bands which are important to radio astronomers. I have not been able to retrace my steps for that one.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...-spark-fights/
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...rn-astronomers
Video of train in night sky:
https://vimeo.com/338482002

Once all the 12,000 satellites are launched (assuming they are placed in similar orbits) 70 to 100 would be visible at night during the summer months, Bassa calculates. “These mega constellations are going to add drastically to the number of satellites that are visible at any time,” he said.

Néstor Espinoza, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, in Heidelberg, said: “It’s basically a private company staining our sky for everyone. It’s interesting that there’s no consensus about it. No one asked us.”

I hope this has not been previously posted. I searched a couple of key words on the forum via Google and did not come up with anything.

[retina]

You are too late.

https://mersenneforum.org/showthread...906#post517906

[kladner]

Originally Posted by retina

You are too late.

https://mersenneforum.org/showthread...906#post517906

Oops.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by retina

You are too late.

https://mersenneforum.org/showthread...906#post517906

Nonetheless, I have decided that this thread is worthy of preservation and extension because it is tightly focused.

With that in mind, I draw attention to https://aas.org/satellite-constellat...orkshop-report