SpaceX recently launched a new coverage map for its Starlink satellite Internet service, which suggests a large part of South Africa might be excluded from its rollout plans.
SpaceX recently launched a new coverage map for its Starlink satellite Internet service, which suggests it might exclude a large part of South Africa from its rollout plans.
However, when moving your mouse cursor over the map, the estimated availability date disappears when it enters the circular area.The images below show where the ring is located on the new Starlink map. It is circled in red to highlight it. The likely explanation for the circle is what is being built near its centre — the Square Kilometre Array , located in the Meerkat National Park near the small town of Carnavaron.The SKA is highly regarded in the scientific community for its potential to look into the deep reaches of space.
Starlink satellites use some of the same radiofrequency spectrum band to transmit data signals as the SKA, as shown in the infographic below. The same goes for several other locations with important astronomical installations, including the Atacama Large Millimetre Array Science Preserve in the north of Chile and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia in the US.
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