Spaaaaace (Part 1)

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yeah, we will need these, when the coming mega-constellations like fucking starlink are gonna plaster the nightsky. excuse my cynicism

Fuck Elon Musk (Part 2)

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is…rather worrying. The summary: astronomers spent a lot of time asking SpaceX and other large satellite operators to pretty please make their satellites fainter and/or use fewer satellites. And then BlueWalker 3 was launched by some tiny company and is one of the brightest things in the sky. Asking nicely isn’t working: internati…