04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
... out from the magnetar. The next day, two radio telescopes, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) and the Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission 2 (STARE2), in the US detected an FRB from that sky...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... Conference in 2019, mega-constellation satellites must be equipped with filters that specifically aim to protect the radio telescopes which operate between 10.6 and 10.7 GHz. Clearly, it is hoped that the active transmissions from satellites can...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... as satellite constellations beam internet connectivity to the remote corners of Earth via radio frequencies that are very close to those set aside for radio telescopes and communication with ESA and NASA satellites. SpaceX internet beams are...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... other facilities of the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK, as well as the new Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China. The objective of Breakthrough Listen is to search, in depth, for techno-signatures from the nearest...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
..., used the MWA, one of the most powerful low-frequency radio telescopes located in a remote, radio-quiet region of Western Australia, which is also one of three telescopes designated as a precursor for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to examine...
07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
.... Undeterred, a couple of years later a different team scanned more stars and this time included the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia in the search, but again the study concluded that none of the 1327...
