Via @sciam.bsky.social: The FCC’s approval for launching a controversial sunlight-beaming satellite, Eärendil-1, comes despite astronomers’ concerns about light pollution. To such objections, the FCC essentially had one response: that’s not our problem. www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
U.S. approval of a controversial satellite has scientists asking: Who’s really in charge of space?A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other ill effects from skyrocketing numbers of satelliteswww.scientificamerican.com