# Kyoto researchers turn 1,200 Starlink satellites into an upper-atmosphere imaging array

Roughly 99 percent of the gas in Earth's upper atmosphere carries no electrical charge — and that neutral majority happens to be the portion our instruments have the hardest time detecting. The remaining fraction, the ionosphere's ionized gas, is comparatively simple to track: charged particles dist

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| Published | 13 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/kyoto-researchers-turn-1200-starlink-satellites-into-an-upper-atmosphere-imaging-array/