• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 day ago

    Any satellite would provide interference, and the earth naturally has its own, so that’s a non-factor, when the best results can only be had in space.

    Radio astronomy isn’t exactly a home hobbies thing if you didn’t know….

    • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
      41·
      23 hours ago

      And radio telescopes aren’t exactly compact enough to build in space. Radio telescope arrays tend to be fields withs dozens-hundreds of dishes several meters across.

    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      23 hours ago

      There is also the fact that the starlink satellites are depleting the ozone layer, in case you haven’t decided we should remove these things yet.