{"id":144910,"date":"2024-09-30T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/starlink-satellites-leaky-radio-waves-obscure-the-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:39:06","slug":"starlink-satellites-leaky-radio-waves-obscure-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/starlink-satellites-leaky-radio-waves-obscure-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink satellites\u2019 leaky radio waves obscure the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites are enabling internet access and cell phone communications around the globe, they\u2019re also posing a threat to radio astronomy, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some wavelength bands, unintended leakage of electromagnetic radiation from the latest generation of the satellites is more than 30 times brighter than emissions from previous versions<\/a>, Cees Bassa, a radio astronomer at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy in Dwingeloo and his colleagues report September 18 in Astronomy & Astrophysics.<\/em> Because the latest generation of Starlink satellites will orbit as many as 100 kilometers lower than earlier satellites, they\u2019ll seem even brighter to ground-based telescopes.\u00a0Overall, their brightness could easily mask observations of dimmer objects like distant galaxies or stars.<\/p>\n\n\n