BlueWalker 3 Satellite UPSC NOTE

  BlueWalker 3 Satellite The BlueWalker 3 is a prototype satellite, part of a satellite constellation.  Planned by its owner AST SpaceMobile...

 

BlueWalker 3 Satellite

• The BlueWalker 3 is a prototype satellite, part of a satellite constellation.

•  Planned by its owner AST SpaceMobile.

• Intended to deliver mobile or broadband services anywhere in the world.

• However, astronomers are raising concerns around these constellations owing to the earth location and relatively large size, their potential to disrupt night sky observations.

Kitt Peak National Observatory(KPNO)

• United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert .

• Observatory has twenty optical and two radio telescope.

• KPNO was founded in 1958 and is operated by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOIRLab).