SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Are Disrupting an Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope's Scans

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), commissioned in 2018, is a wide-field sky astronomical survey designed to detect neutron star collisions and transient objects that rapidly change in brightness, such as gamma ray bursts. Since 2019, the facility has experienced an increasing number of disruptions associated with SpaceX's internet satellites.