FLAGSTAFF, AZ — A new kind of broadband internet is coming to Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, one beamed down from space by so-called “satellite constellations.”
This technology can provide much-needed internet access in rural areas, but it comes with a dilemma.
The new satellites are so bright and so numerous, astronomers worry about the future of the night sky.
A couple of years ago, a public educator named Victoria Girgis was showing a group of visitors around Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory.
They were looking at a group of galaxies through a telescope.
Girgis noticed dots moving across the sky all following each other in a line.
Girgis dashed to the telescope and took a picture, which ended up going viral on the Internet. It captured the first-ever launch of 60 Starlink satellites.
