Why Spacex Starlink Is Bad for Astronomy
by Samuele Lilliu | 21 March 2020
2019 Physics Nobel laureate Prof. Didier Queloz talks about how astronomy is being affected and will be affected by the satellite business.
- Client: University of Cambridge
- Budget: £5000
- Location: Institute of Astronomy
- Featuring: Didier Queloz
- Producer: Samuele Lilliu
- Director of Photography: Samuele Lilliu
- Camera operator: Samuele Lilliu, Oggi Tomic
- Editor: Samuele Lilliu
- Crew: Samuele Lilliu, Oggi Tomic
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2019 Physics Nobel laureate Prof. Didier Queloz (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) talks about how astronomy is being affected and will be affected by the satellite business. This is part of a longer interview on the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star filmed on 27/11/2019.
I think it’s really a threat to send not a couple of hundred of satellites but having 10, 20, 50 thousand satellites in low-Earth orbit. Is the society ready to lose the sky? Is the sky something that should be free or is it a new market?, Didier Queloz said.
