Radio astronomers coordinated with SpaceX to discover an appealing option for assisting pricey telescopes prevent disturbance from countless Starlink satellites
By Jeremy Hsu
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A radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia
J. Seymour/Green Bank Observatory
Radio telescopes observing the universes deal with growing difficulties due to the fact that of electro-magnetic disturbance from countless satellites in low Earth orbit. Now, experiments including SpaceX's Starlink satellites have actually demonstrated how to essentially remove one type of this issue.
As these type of satellites speed around the world, they send out so-called downlink signals to Earth to supply web and interaction services. When they travel through locations of the sky where radio telescopes are observing, the short-lived blips from those strong signals can possibly affect hours of …
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