A CLUTTERED AND NOISY SKY

What will SpaceX’s launch of their satellite constellation Starlink, mean for the science of astronomy and our use of the sky? Starlink is a system that on its own could soon have more than thirty thousand spacecraft deployed, meaning humans could see up to four hundred thousand satellites in the sky by the end of this decade. A step change in our use of space, how will it affect those still stuck on planet earth?

Dr Robert Massey is Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Image: © NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory /CTIO/AURA/DELVE

A cluttered and noisy sky? Meeting the challenge of satellite constellations (and why you should care)

This is the third in a series of four talks on the Bath Preservation Trust / Herschel Museum of Astronomy theme Conserving the Planet. The last talk will be on Friday 1 December at BRLSI – Space Debris: Hazards