{"id":9896,"date":"2019-06-01T23:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9896"},"modified":"2019-07-07T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T20:38:32","slug":"we-dont-need-another-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/01\/we-dont-need-another-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need Another Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/science\/after-spacex-launch-a-fear-of-satellites-that-outnumber-all-visible-stars\/ar-AACeR9y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from NYT via MSN (opens in a new tab)\">from NYT via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After SpaceX Starlink Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Shannon Hall<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3x21JECDyfU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Last month, SpaceX successfully&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/23\/science\/spacex-launch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;60 500-pound satellites into space. Soon amateur skywatchers started sharing images of those satellites in night skies, igniting an uproar among astronomers who fear that the planned orbiting cluster will wreak havoc on scientific research and trash our view of the cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main issue is that those 60 satellites are merely a drop in the bucket. SpaceX anticipates&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/licensing.fcc.gov\/myibfs\/download.do?attachment_key=1190018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">launching thousands of satellites<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 creating a mega-constellation of false stars collectively called Starlink that will connect the entire planet to the internet, and introduce a new line of business for the private spaceflight company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While astronomers agree that global internet service is a worthy goal, the satellites are bright \u2014 too bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/science\/after-spacex-launch-a-fear-of-satellites-that-outnumber-all-visible-stars\/ar-AACeR9y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at MSN (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NYT via MSN After SpaceX Starlink Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars by Shannon Hall Last month, SpaceX successfully&nbsp;launched&nbsp;60 500-pound satellites into space. Soon amateur skywatchers started sharing images of those satellites in night skies, igniting an uproar among astronomers who fear that the planned orbiting cluster will wreak havoc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}