This volume will be of value to anyone concerned with understanding the impacts that satellite constellations are having on our ability to benefit from an unimpeded view of the night sky, and the social, technical and legal contexts within which measures to manage these impacts need to be developed.
An unprecedented new era in human uses of outer space began in 2019 with the first-ever deployment of a 'constellation' of satellites that will eventually number in the thousands. As the rate of new satellite launches increased in following years, changes to the night sky from optical to radio wavelengths became apparent. Astronomers, innovators, space-law experts and Indigenous elders gathered in 2023 to consider the social, scientific and cultural ramifications of the 'New Space' regime dominated by commercial actors. The contributions in this edited volume span a wide range of topics from the technical to the legal, their authors grappling with a key question: how can science, society and private space companies co-exist harmoniously while pursuing their respective interests? IAU S385 will be of value to anyone concerned with understanding the impacts that satellite constellations have on our ability to benefit from an unimpeded view of the night sky.
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This volume addresses how can we understand and manage the negative impacts of satellite constellations on human science and culture.
Preface;
1. Streaks, signals, and space junk: facing the challenges of
satellite constellations Karen Howard;
2. From Sputnik to Starlink:
historical perspectives on astronomy and satellite communications Lisa Rand;
3. Overview of indigenous rights and outer space for the IAU-CPS policy hub
Hilding Neilson;
4. Indigenous knowledges and kinship as a model for our
future in outer space Hilding Neilson;
5. Countering the threat of space
pollution: awareness raising via sustainability narratives Nicholas Campion;
6. Summary of SatHub, and the current observational status of satellite
constellations Mike Peel;
7. SatHub panel: satellite Interference in
observatories around the world Siegfried Eggl;
8. Strategies for spectrum
coexistence between radio telescopes and satellite networks Chris de Pree;
9.
Spectrum management at ALMA and synergies with other entities Giorgio
Siringo;
10. Impact of large satellite constellations on VLBI radio
astronomical observations for materialization of celestial and terrestrial
reference frames and EOP estimation Vincenza Tornatore;
11. Modelling
steerable beams of satellite constellations for radio astronomy impact
studies Federico di Vruno;
12. Systematic effects of LEOsats in Rubin
Observatory LSST camera Daniel Polin;
13. Estimating the impact to astronomy
from the OneWeb satellite constellation using multicolour observations
Christian Adam;
14. Contamination of spectroscopic observations by satellite
constellations Oli Hainaut;
15. Spectroscopy of human-made space objects:
from low-Earth orbit debris to satellite constellations and exotic outliers
Danica Zilkova;
16. Space surveillance as a by-product of space-based
astronomical observations with CHEOPS Nicolas Billot;
17. The impact and
mitigation of satellite constellations on astronomical laser propagation
Julian Christou;
18. Starlink in your backyard: a DIY approach to satellite
monitoring and data analysis Robert Watson;
19. The effects of satellite
constellations on amateur astronomy Paul Daniels;
20. PASO Astronomy and
space situational awareness in a dark sky destination Domingos Barbosa;
21.
Analytic vs. Montecarlo simulations of satellite visibility David
Galadi-Enriquez;
22. Satellites and space debris photometric phase functions
used for astronomical images contamination prediction Jiri Silha;
23. Precise
optical observations of orbital objects in severely trailed images:
application to LEO satellites, extremely faint objects, and space debris Alex
Drago-Gonzalez and George Nunez;
24. Report of the International Institute of
Space Law on light pollution of the night sky from a space law perspective
Rafael Moro Aguilar;
25. Astronomy and satellite constellations: an
international lens Aaron Boley;
26. National approaches to the protection of
the dark and quiet sky Yana Yakushina;
27. General principles of
international environmental and space law applicable to the protection of
dark and quiet skies Jonathan Kaley-Isley and Tamara Blagojevic;
28. Update:
how proclamations are influencing the grassroots movement for dark and quiet
skies Amy Carissa Oliver;
29. Merged recommendations for mitigating impact
Richard Green;
30. Astronomy, doughnuts, and carrying capacity Andy Lawrence;
31. A solution of a devil's advocate Put telescopes in space Lerothodi
Leeuw;
32. Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE and IRIS2 A European satellite
constellation Nadya Ben-Bekhti;
33. National policy with a global impact:
satellite constellations and the UK Robert Massey;
34. National security
interests in relation to dark and quiet skies Roohi Dalal;
35. Forecasting
numbers of post-mission satellites of major constellations, and mitigation
methods Kenneth MacLeod;
36. Optical observations of PMS stars from the
Rozhen Observatory in Bulgaria Evgeni Semkov;
37. Spectral evolution of
Iridium satellites recorded by AMOS spectral camera system Katarina Sa
