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FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

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FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

heliotrope@retrofed.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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The FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, its giant mirror, falls outside its authority since the regulator mainly focuses on radio spectrum.

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Not the radio spectrum, by definition. Visible light and radio are different parts of the spectrum

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