Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.

  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s not a great vision, it’s what is happening. It is the very thing that is being complained about in this article and in your comment.

    There will be mitigations, and no, it won’t be as good as not having the interference in the first place, but we’re not putting the expansion of space infrastructure and exploration on hold until novel terrestrial observations are exhausted, because that day will never come. So when to rip the bandaid off? Let spacex build their network, let starship go online, let the new lift capabilities drive the price of launches to unseen lows, and let the actual exploration of space begin.

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      1 year ago

      we’re not putting the expansion of space infrastructure and exploration on hold until novel terrestrial observations are exhausted

      Who’s we? And who’s doing this exploration?

      The privatization of space is not some great move forward for humanity. We don’t need science to bow down and open wide for rich technocrats who adhere to and aspire to the Great Man theory of history.