A groundbreaking solution has been developed to address the growing challenge of radio interference from satellite constellations on sensitive…


NSF Green Bank Observatory Works with Local School to Allow WiFi in the “Quiet Zone”
The U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO) is entering a new era for the “Quiet Zone”—…

Protecting the Cosmos: NSF NRAO Leads Critical Spectrum Studies to Safeguard Radio Astronomy
The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has received funding to expand its study of…

NSF’s ongoing technical coordination with satellite constellation operators
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new coordination agreement with AST SpaceMobile to address the impact…

Astronomers, Satellite Internet Provider Develop New System to Share the Sky
Astronomers learn about the universe by pointing their telescopes to the sky. But what happens when a satellite comes between them and the cosmological objects they hope to study? New cooperative work between the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and SpaceX shows a way to share this finite resource between radio astronomers and industry.

Protecting ALMA’s Skies
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), renowned for observing the cosmos’s darkest and most distant corners, has taken a…