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Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast... by edgyquant on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:16AM (#30024598)
Wouldn’t it be better to move the instruments for detection outside of earth’s atmosphere anyway? Same with most telescopes.
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Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast... by addicted on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:56AM (#30026244)
Sure.

And I'm sure Starlink will be ponying the money for that.

Or wait to deploy their satellites until that process is completed.

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Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast... by edgyquant on Saturday January 22, 2022 @05:32PM (#30041484)
Why would they? It isn’t like asteroids are now impossible to detect, just harder, while we don’t actually have any counter for an asteroid that was going to crash into the Earth anyway.
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