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Have fun! Replace your outside light bulbs with red ones. By replacing your outside lights you will draw attention to your concerns about 5G that can lead to further discussions within communities. In other words, a positive, beneficial way of raising awareness. Satellites and 5G Red lights reduce light pollution in order to see the...
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The working group reports from the @UN/Spain/@IAU_org Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society II conference are out. The reports focus on the feasibility of implementing specific measures to mitigate the impact of artificial interferences. More: https://t.co/kgNgMb2ZTq1/2 pic.twitter.com/SzmbgooDSL— NOIRLab (@NOIRLabAstro) January 10, 2022 Image credit: NOIRLab/@UNOOSA/IAU/Government of Spain/M. Lewinsky NOIRLab has published The Working...
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Source: https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/15/tim-peake-space-debris-poses-catastrophic-risk-to-the-iss-15775432/?ito=flipboard Published Wednesday 15 Dec 2021 The growing amount of space debris orbiting the earth risks a ‘catastrophic impact’ with the International Space Station (ISS), Tim Peake has warned. Major Peake, the first British astronaut to walk in space, said communications satellites vital to many aspects of modern life were all potentially in jeopardy...
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15th November 2021 • Russia has conducted an anti- satellite weapon (ASAT) test, resulting in over 1 500 pieces of trackable orbital debris and hundreds of thousands of smaller orbital debris. • U.S. State Department: “dangerous and irresponsible behavior by the Russian Federation” • The ISS crew sheltered in their lifeboats today due to the...
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Streetlights to Satellites: Addressing Light Pollution with the United Nations The United Nations’ Office of Outer Space Affairs is considering issues of light pollution spanning from streetlights to satellites. BY: MONICA YOUNG OCTOBER 22, 2021 The statistics are stunning: More than 80% of the world’s population (and more than 99% of those in the U.S. and Europe)...
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Source: https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/rwanda-files-acquire-over-300000-satellites By Alice Kagina Published : October 20, 2021 Rwanda Space Agency has filed a request to acquire two satellite constellations from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), namely Cinnamon-217 and Cinnamon-937, according to an official statement. The development was communicated by the agency on October 20 saying that the submission is in compliance with ITU...
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Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/satellite-swarms-are-threatening-night-sky-creating-new-zone-environmental-conflict 7 OCT 2021 BY JOSHUA SOKOL On 19 December 2019, Tony Tyson, an experimental physicist at the University of California (UC), Davis, joined a conference call with billionaire Elon Musk that helped shape the fate of starry nights on Earth. The call was cordial but tense. Seven months earlier, Musk’s company SpaceX had...
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Source: https://news.satnews.com/2021/10/04/5g-from-space-airbus-partners-to-study-standards/ Space based network infrastructure will soon complement the 5G terrestrial mobile networks that are currently being deployed — this will lead to satellite communications (SATCOM) becoming an integrated and indispensable part of the global telecommunications ecosystem, with the potential to grow existing market segments such as backhauling and to expand into new areas...
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