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Starlink v2 satelites will ruin science. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just to add, radio telescopes easily have diameters of several 10 to several 100 meters, you won't put that easily in space. And even if you do, maybe one, not tens of them. And these are often used in network as well for interferometry to have higher spatial resolution, so that would be gone as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Why can't we use the satellites for interferometry, too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

A couple of satellites can make a larger telescope than we could ever build on earth, and you avoid the natural interference as well as the the interference from other satellites (star link isn’t the only source of interference…).