Media

I am available to talk on any topic related to satellites, radio astronomy, and Wikimedia. Below are some examples of my past media engagements. Please feel free to contact me!

BlueWalker 3, October 2023

As part of the Nature paper publication, IAU CPS put out an announcement that was accompanied by various press releases, including one from Imperial that quoted me. The story was covered in various publications, including:

• Wired – “Amazon Is Going to Fill the Sky With Satellites. Astronomers Aren’t Happy”
• Telegraph – “Satellites brighter than stars ‘could change our night skies forever’”
• Hot Hardware – “Astronomers Slam Massive BlueWalker 3 Satellite For Being Obnoxiously Bright”
• Interesting Engineering – “Massive BlueWalker 3 comm satellite may threaten astronomy”
• List 23 – “A Big Satellite Extains Everything Except For The Brightest Stars! Is it a Man-made Menace?”
• Deccan Herald – “Satellite ‘constellations’ could hamper night sky observations, astronomers raise concerns”
• Le Parisien – “« Ça pourrait empêcher de prévoir un impact d’astéroïde » : le satellite BlueWalker 3 inquiète les astronomes”
• El Pais – “El ‘boom’ de las estrellas artificiales cambia el cielo para siempre”
• El Pais (English) – Boom in satellites changes the sky forever
• Physics World Podcast – New telecoms satellites will degrade our view of the cosmos

MagPi, 2022

• MagPi 119, July 2022, GroundBIRD telescope, 4-page article on the use of Raspberry Pi’s for GroundBIRD operations

Rings and Loops in the stars: Planck’s stunning new images, 2015

The press release was posted at:

• RAS
• NAM 2015
• JBCA

It was covered by:

• Astronomy Now, “Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2015 report 1”, 6 July 2015
• Daily Mail, “Our galaxy’s fingerprint revealed in unprecedented detail: Incredible maps show the Milky Way’s stars, rings and loops”, 6 July 2015
• io9, “Our Best View Yet of the Galaxy’s Massive Electromagnetic Loop”, 6 July 2015
• Science Daily, 6 July 2015
• SpaceRef, 6 July 2015
• Astronomi Amo, “Anelli e loop nel cielo di Planck”, 6 July 2015
• Astronomy Magazine, 7 July 2015
• PhysOrg, 7 July 2015
• Science World Report, “Planck Satellite Creates Sky Map Revealing Massive Loop and Dust Ring”, 7 July 2015
• “Hitting the headlines: NAM 2015 in news stories”, Astronomy & Geophysics, August 2015