Ever since SpaceX began the process of launching its Starlink satellite constellation, consisting of thousands of satellites that work together to create a global broadband network, astronomers have ...

Over the past decades, considerable effort has gone into designing, building, and deploying satellites for many important purposes. Recently networks, known as satellite constellations, have been ...

Claudius Ptolemy's Almagest, dating to the second century A.D., cataloged 48 constellations, though the precise methodology for their delineation remains unknown due to the lack of surviving original ...

n June 2019, the International Astronomical Union expressed concern about the negative impact that the planned mega-constellations of communication satellites may have on astronomical observations and ...