Space sustainability in today's @nature.com: 🛰️ How satellite constellations & #astronomy can learn to get along www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🛰️ Next steps for dark and quiet skies www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🙃 Stop Dropping Space Debris On Our Heads www.nature.com/articles/d41... - ThreadSky

alexwitze.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Space sustainability in today's @nature.com:

🛰️ How satellite constellations & #astronomy can learn to get along https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00792-y

🛰️ Next steps for dark and quiet skies https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00788-8

🙃 Stop Dropping Space Debris On Our Heads https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00797-7

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brntyl.bsky.social•2 days ago

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annfielding.bsky.social•2 days ago

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alexahawaii.bsky.social•2 days ago

Including all the ‘space junk’ up there which be recycled ‘up there’

alexnijboer.bsky.social•2 days ago

And now the EU is forced to build thier own gps cus the US (Musk and that other guy) use it as a bargaining chip.....

joegeiger.bsky.social•2 days ago

The night sky is yet another public resource being ripped away from us by billionaires and corporations.

darksapiens.bsky.social•2 days ago

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alexwitze.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you're interested in these issues, there's a new Center for Space Environmentalism with lots of related resources 🛰️https://www.spaceenvironmentalism.org/home

alexwitze.bsky.social•2 days ago

At a #spaceweather workshop in Boulder, Will Parker of MIT just dropped the statistic that SpaceX did ~100,000 collision avoidance maneuvers with its Starlinks in 2024. 😮 They release these numbers in public updates but I hadn't quite grasped the magnitude before.

alexwitze.bsky.social•2 days ago

Parker: Following a solar storm that changes atmospheric density, we are now seeing mass migrations of satellites to boost their orbits. The May 2024 storm caused ~5,000 satellites, half of the operational ones, to move en masse in unplanned maneuvers. October's storm broke that record.

alexwitze.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here's a @jfoust.bsky.social story on satellite mass migrations from December: https://spacenews.com/geomagnetic-storms-cause-mass-migrations-of-satellites/

seersnively.bsky.social•2 days ago

Starlink was always a bad idea, a money loser, and an environmental disaster.

I can't wait for them to all fall out of the sky.

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