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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

<https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/opinion_column_starlink_interference/>

# Musk is messing with the Cosmic Dawn. Will alien hunters save the day for all mankind?

## Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy

"Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself.

"It loves photobombing astronomy photographs, as the satellites drift across fields of view that were intended to snap distant starlight. But for its latest trick, it's humming loudly over the faintest whispers from the dawn of the universe. …"

#Starlink#SpaceX#SETI

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