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For everyone worried about these satellite's effect on astronomy, don't the new satellite launch capabilities that make "internet-from-space" suddenly feasible
by ColanR 6y ago
For everyone worried about these satellite's effect on astronomy, don't the new satellite launch capabilities that make "internet-from-space" suddenly feasible mean that telescopes could be more easily put in orbit too?
It seems like that would solve the light pollution problem. I have no relevant background, though.
- em-bee 6y agocould 3000 little telescopes in orbit work together to replace a large one like hubble?
- manmal 6y agoFWIW, the picture of that black hole that was taken last year was the product of a worldwide cooperation of observatories, combining the received signals with an insanely complex computation.
- dylan604 6y agoHubble is not that large compared to the mirrors on ground based telescopes[0]. Ground based Subaru: 8.2m Gran Telescopio Canarias: 10.4m Space based Hubble: 2.4m James Webb: 6.5m (still on the ground) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_optical_telesc...