{"id":180389,"date":"2024-01-13T04:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/elon-musks-starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals"},"modified":"2024-01-13T04:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:26:29","slug":"elon-musks-starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/elon-musks-starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellites are \u201cleaking\u201d signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Aj2lmQBSAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of satellites have been launched into Earth orbit over the past decade or so, with tens of thousands more <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/conlist.html\">planned<\/a> in coming years. Many of these will be in \u201cmega-constellations\u201d such as Starlink, which aim to cover the entire globe.<\/p>\n<p>These bright, shiny satellites are putting at risk our connection to the cosmos, which has been important to humans for countless millennia and has already been <a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/resource\/light-pollution\/\">greatly diminished<\/a> by the growth of cities and artificial lighting. They are also posing a problem for astronomers \u2013 and hence for our understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2309.15672\">new research<\/a> accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, we discovered Starlink satellites are also \u201cleaking\u201d radio signals that interfere with radio astronomy. Even in a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/science-technology-and-innovation\/space-and-astronomy\/co-hosting-ska-telescope\/australian-radio-quiet-zone-wa\">radio quiet zone<\/a>\u201d in outback Western Australia, we found the satellite emissions were far brighter than any natural source in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of satellites have been launched into Earth orbit over the past decade or so, with tens of thousands more planned in coming years. Many of these will be in \u201cmega-constellations\u201d such as Starlink, which aim to cover the entire globe. These bright, shiny satellites are putting at risk our connection to the cosmos, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,219,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180389","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}