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Saving the Quiet Sky: Scientists and Telecom Team Up to Protect NSF VLA

A recent upgrade to a commercial cell phone tower near the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF…

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

The U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO) is entering a new era for the “Quiet Zone”—…

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new coordination agreement with AST SpaceMobile to address the impact…

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