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Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails

  • June 9, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails
Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server from researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center, reports that 73.3% of images the agency's new SPHEREx space telescope collected between May and September of last year were contaminated by at least one artificial satellite trail. And it's only going to get worse from here.

Originally published at Phys.org

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