Workshop on Satellite Power Systems (SPS) effects on optical and radio astronomy

Conference · Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5286734

Stokes, G M; Ekstrom, P A ^[1]

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1. eds.

The impacts of the SPS on astronomy were concluded to be: increased sky brightness, reducing the effective aperture of terrestrial telescopes; microwave leakage radiation causing erroneous radioastronomical signals; direct overload of radioastronomical receivers at centimeter wavelengths; and unintentional radio emissions associated with massive amounts of microwave power or with the presence of large, warm structures in orbit causing the satellites to appear as individual stationary radio sources; finally, the fixed location of the geostationary satellite orbits would result in fixed regions of the sky being unusable for observations. (GHT)

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-06-1830
• OSTI ID: 5286734
• Report Number(s): CONF-7905143-; TRN: 80-010751
• Resource Relation: Conference: Workshop on satellite power systems effect on optical and radio astronomy, Seattle, WA, USA, May 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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