Private space companies are hellbent on filling our planet's space with many satellites, a trend that is being driven by the efforts of SpaceX to establish its broadband internet-beaming Starlink constellation, which will eventually incorporate tens of thousands of separate 573-pound satellites. They are only going to get bigger.
Thousands of new sats being launched every year are already disrupting scientists' observations from the ground by showing up as long streaks of light and interfering with radio signals
The concern is that it's absolutely ginormous, instead of the sheer number, as reported by New Scientist. It could be the best object in the sky.
The device is an experimental cellular service.
BlueWalker 3 is the largest commercial antenna array ever launched and will deploy a 26 foot antenna.
John Barentine is an astronomer at Dark Sky consulting. The object could be brighter than Venus.
BlueWalker 3 is capable of messing with radio astronomy equipment in order to beam data to someone.
The amount of energy in that beam is a concern for us.
According to New Scientist, AST SpaceMobile is planning to launch more than 100 larger sats called Blue Birds, twice the size of BlueWalker 3.
Tech giants Amazon and Apple are also getting into the satellite game, piling on to an extensive list of companies trying to establish themselves
The brighter these objects are, the more damage they will do to the images of the night sky.
There will be more satellites in the future according to most astronomer. They want a peaceful co- existence. Satellites can't be made invisible.
New Scientist didn't get a response from Space Mobile.
There is a huge satellite in the night sky.
Astronomers are freaked out by Amazon's constellation of 3, 236 satellites.
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