{"id":155646,"date":"2023-01-17T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/spacex-signs-agreement-with-us-national-science-foundation-to-prevent-starlinks-interference-with-astronomy"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:24:27","slug":"spacex-signs-agreement-with-us-national-science-foundation-to-prevent-starlinks-interference-with-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/spacex-signs-agreement-with-us-national-science-foundation-to-prevent-starlinks-interference-with-astronomy","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX signs agreement with US National Science Foundation to prevent Starlink\u2019s interference with astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-signs-agreement-with-us-national-science-foundation-to-prevent-starlinks-interference-with-astronomy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX signed a new agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to prevent Starlink satellites from interfering with astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has long been criticized by astronomers for the brightness of its Starlink satellites. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, said in 2019 that SpaceX would ensure that Starlink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites-will-protect-science\/\">has no material effect on discoveries in astronomy<\/a>. \u201cWe care a great deal about science,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> Exactly, potentially helping billions of economically disadvantaged people is the greater good. That said, we\u2019ll make sure Starlink has no material effect on discoveries in astronomy. We care a great deal about science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX signed a new agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to prevent Starlink satellites from interfering with astronomy. SpaceX has long been criticized by astronomers for the brightness of its Starlink satellites. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, said in 2019 that SpaceX would ensure that Starlink has no material effect on discoveries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}