Open post athlete4 @athlete4@techhub.social · 25mo ago Replying to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social <p>Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.</p><p>"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"</p><p><a href="https://www.astron.nl/starlink-satellites/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">astron.nl/starlink-satellites/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/105160/navigating-the-cosmos-by-quasar/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">universetoday.com/105160/navig</span><span class="invisible">ating-the-cosmos-by-quasar/</span></a></p> @sundogplanets@mastodon.social how is it possible that a private company allowed to do this? are there no international bodies responsible for regulating space projects?
Open post athlete4 @athlete4@techhub.social · 24mo ago Replying to @QuarkMaker@mastodon.social @athlete4@techhub.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social For example, no nation is allowed to claim any other celestial object, in whole or in part, as their own. Therefore, as an example, the Moon legally doesn't belong to anybody. However, if someone built and flew their own rockets and went to the Moon, started digging around, and built houses (metaphorically speaking) it's not like the U.S. or anyone else could stop them. @QuarkMaker@mastodon.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social oh interesting, thanks for the insight!