33: Q&A - The Year in Space
The Supermassive Podcast
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The Pros and Cons of Starlink Satellites
i've recently been on my bbc impartiality refresher course so i'm going to give a very balanced answer to this and then Robert's going to put the perspective i think of the astronomy community which i suspect it'll be less balanced. The pros of all these satellites they are connecting the world they're filling in the gaps with internet connectivity with mobile connectivity and you've also got these constellations of satellites small satellites for climate change monitoring forestry monitoring pollution agriculture. They're doing lots of good things on the downside is the bBBC impartiality course kicking in they're reflecting light as as Becky mentioned and there's the other issue is the radio frequencies they're using.
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