Given that many of the megaconstellations have already been approved and some have started launching, astronomers are trying to determine how to work around the bright streaks. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/DECam DELVE Survey (CC BY 4.0) Shown here, at least 19 streaks were attributed to Starlink satellites by astronomers with NOIRLab. Satellite megaconstellations cause bright streaks across astronomical images. The only way to avoid any impact on ground-based visible-light and infrared telescopes would be to launch zero satellites, says Connie Walker, an astronomer at NOIRLab and co-chair of the team that wrote the report. It describes the results of a June workshop that brought together astronomers, satellite operators, dark-sky enthusiasts and others. The report is the most technical assessment to date of the extent of the problem. Astronomers have been working since to determine how bad the problem will be and what they can do about it. Scientists realized the problem in June 2019, only after SpaceX launched its first set of Starlinks.
SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon have all been in talks with astronomers about how to mitigate the satellites’ brightness. 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 project called Kuiper. SpaceX, an aerospace company in Hawthorne, California, has already launched more than 650 of a planned 12,000 Starlink satellites. Tens of thousands of satellites, which will provide broadband Internet to people around the globe, are expected to soar into space in the coming years. “There’s no place to hide in the middle of the night from such a satellite constellation,” says Tony Tyson, a physicist at the University of California, Davis. But high-flying satellites that catch the sunlight are a particular problem, according to the report. SpaceX launch highlights threat to astronomy from ‘megaconstellations’Īstronomers can take some steps to reduce the impact, such as scheduling observations to avoid times when satellites whiz by, or working with satellite operators to develop less-reflective versions. “Some phenomena will surely go undiscovered as a result of significant interference,” says a 25 August report from the American Astronomical Society and NOIRLab, an umbrella organization for several US observatories that is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). These streaks interfere with astronomical observations, including studies of fundamental physics and cosmology, planets beyond the Solar System and asteroids that threaten Earth. That’s the conclusion of the most detailed assessment yet of how these satellite networks, launched by companies including Amazon and SpaceX, might affect astronomical observations from Earth.įrom the perspective of a telescope gazing at the sky, satellites can reflect sunlight and appear as bright streaks.
‘Megaconstellations’ of satellites increasingly launching into orbit around Earth will contaminate the data astronomers collect - and profoundly shift humanity’s view of the night skies. Andersen's love for pixel art allows for some breathtaking visuals, especially if it's applied to a Mega Man game.SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites (shown here in stacks, waiting to deploy) in May of last year. Despite this, it was a game that survived development hell and was released to critical acclaim. Owlboy had spent nine years being developed by Andersen, where he was working through multiple different incidents that affected his personal state during development. One of his most successful titles was Owlboy, a story-driven platforming adventure where a mute owl named Otus explores high above the clouds to the open-skies. Andersen, or snakepixel on Twitter, is an independent game developer and pixel artist.
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