Space Noise Rising: How Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Are Flooding the Cosmos with Radio Waves and Threatening Our View of the Universe
In recent years, the heavens have become ever more crowded. Not just with stars and galaxies, but with artificial hardware — communication satellites, imaging platforms, Internet-of-things nodes, and more. Among these, the mega-constellation built by SpaceX under the Starlink brand stood out for its ambition: to blanket the Earth in broadband connectivity from low-earth orbit. But now, a startling new discovery raises a grave concern for astronomy and our ability to study the universe. A team of scientists has found that second-generation Starlink satellites are emitting unexpectedly large amounts of unwanted radio-wave leakage, flooding frequency bands reserved for radio-astronomy and threatening to blind our radio telescopes.
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