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  • The IAU is finally complaining about a satellite

    From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 6 12:56:26 2022
    Not one of Elon Musk's, but this one:

    https://www.livescience.com/photobombing-satellite-iau-warning

    A satellite called Blue Walker 3, by a company in Texas.

    John Savard

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 6 17:10:42 2022
    On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 12:56:26 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
    wrote:

    Not one of Elon Musk's, but this one:

    https://www.livescience.com/photobombing-satellite-iau-warning

    A satellite called Blue Walker 3, by a company in Texas.

    John Savard

    It's academic. Nobody is going to shut down the commercialization of
    space because of ground based astronomy. Nor, for the most part,
    should they.

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