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Planned lunar satellites will flood the farside with unintended radio leakage unless they are shielded by at least about 30 dB.

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load-bearing objection Open multi-year lunar-farside RFI forecast with a real catalogue and code; the ~31 dB number is soft because it sits on unmeasured harmonic UEMR, but the clean-window warning is solid and useful. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.24527 v1 pith:DYSLEITM submitted 2026-07-27 astro-ph.IM

Modelling Radio Frequency Interference on the Lunar Farside

Charlie K. Ashe , Ella J. Marshall , Evan F. Keane , Steve Prabu , Richard Lynch , David R. DeBoer This is my paper
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keywords lunar farsideradio frequency interferenceunintended electromagnetic radiationsatellite shieldingLFT3radio astronomycislunar satellitesRFI modelling
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The pith

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The lunar farside is still the cleanest radio site in the inner solar system, which is why instruments like an LFT3-style telescope want to work there. This paper models how that quietness erodes as planned lunar and cislunar satellites appear over the next few years. It finds that deliberate communications stay mostly in narrow bands near 2.4–2.6 GHz, but unintended leakage spreads across the HF, VHF, and UHF bands and becomes nearly continuous as more craft rise above the horizon. Under the model’s assumptions, only uniform shielding of roughly 30 dB or more brings the worst leakage below a one-second LFT3-like sensitivity floor. The practical message is that the farside remains usable for such instruments for now, but the clean window is closing and mission design and policy must act while it still exists.

Core claim

Using a catalogue of planned lunar missions and separate models for intended and unintended emissions, the authors show that an LFT3-like receiver on the farside will see rising, often broadband contamination as the visible satellite count grows through 2028–2030. Intended links concentrate near communications bands, especially 2.4–2.6 GHz; unintended electromagnetic radiation contaminates wide stretches of the 0.1–2700 MHz band. A uniform UEMR attenuation of at least about 30 dB (31.40 dB at the worst frequency in their run) is required to push the maximum received interference below the instrument’s one-second sensitivity; more sensitive telescopes would need still more shielding. Without

What carries the argument

FEARLESS — a time-stepped simulation that propagates each catalogue satellite relative to a fixed farside site, keeps only sources above the local horizon, applies frequency-dependent IEMR and UEMR emission models, folds in the LFT3 antenna effective area and beam, and sums the received power spectrum.

Load-bearing premise

The model treats future satellites’ unintended leakage as well represented by a catalogue that is only directly measured up to about 230 MHz and is filled at higher frequencies by harmonics and representative power levels; if real leakage is much weaker, stronger, or differently shaped, both the contamination maps and the 30 dB shielding number can move by large factors.

What would settle it

Wide-band, calibrated measurements of actual lunar or cislunar spacecraft unintended emission spectra above a few hundred megahertz—compared against the paper’s harmonic-filled catalogue and against the predicted received power at a farside site—would confirm or overturn the 31.40 dB uniform-shielding requirement and the claimed contamination density by 2029–2030.

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If this is right

  • LFT3-class observations remain feasible in the near term, but the fraction of clean sky and clean spectrum shrinks quickly after about 2028 as more satellites become simultaneously visible.
  • Preserving the farside as radio-quiet requires satellite-level UEMR shielding, stricter out-of-band limits, and pre-launch emission tests, not only observing-strategy tricks such as avoiding low elevations.
  • More sensitive future farside arrays would need higher than ~30 dB uniform UEMR suppression to meet the same ‘below sensitivity’ criterion.
  • There is a time-limited window in which the natural radio quietness of the farside can still be measured before persistent satellite RFI sets in, which should drive mission timing and policy.
  • Intended communications near 2.4–2.6 GHz are a localized bandwidth loss that may be inevitable for data relay; unintended broadband leakage is the harder, spectrum-wide threat.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If operators treat ~30 dB UEMR shielding as a design requirement for cislunar craft, the same standard would also reduce leakage seen by Earth-based low-frequency arrays that already struggle with mega-constellations.
  • The sky maps’ concentration of passes near the horizon suggests that future farside arrays with steerable high-gain beams could still carve out usable high-elevation windows longer than fixed broad-beam dipoles can.
  • A public, regularly updated ‘farside RFI budget’ tied to real launch manifests would turn this static catalogue study into an operational planning tool for every proposed lunar radio experiment.
  • Without binding leakage limits, commercial relay constellations could lock in a permanently elevated noise floor before the first generation of farside science payloads finishes its baseline surveys.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 8 minor

Summary. The paper presents FEARLESS, an open-source forward simulation of the radio-frequency interference environment at the planned LFT3 landing site on the lunar farside. A catalogue of ~50 planned lunar/cislunar satellites (Table A1) is propagated over 2025–2030; intended (IEMR, mostly 2.4–2.6 GHz Gaussian features) and unintended (UEMR, catalogue-based up to ~230 MHz, extended by harmonics to order n=8 with sinc²-sidelobe-derived amplitudes) emissions are converted to received power via Friis-style flux and the frequency- and direction-dependent effective areas of the three LFT3 antenna systems. Main findings: visible-satellite counts grow from ~1–2 mean daily (2025–2027) to maxima of ~16 by 2029; UEMR contaminates the HF/VHF/UHF bands broadly while IEMR is spectrally localised; and a uniform UEMR shielding of 31.40 dB — set by the worst frequency, 410.9 MHz — is required to keep maximum UEMR below the 1 s LFT3 sensitivity. The authors conclude the farside remains usable but increasingly contaminated, and that satellite-level shielding is the only effective broad-band mitigation.

Significance. If the results hold, this is a timely and policy-relevant contribution: the lunar farside is currently the only radio-quiet site in the inner solar system, and a credible forward model of its degradation directly informs mission shielding requirements, ITU-style protection discussions, and the scheduling of instruments such as LFT3, LuSEE-Night, and FARSIDE. The work has genuine strengths worth naming: the FEARLESS code is released open source with a documented mission catalogue (Table A1) so individual entries can be revised; the modelling is a forward simulation rather than a fit dressed as prediction; the instrument-response treatment (Eq. 2, beam-weighted off-axis gains across three antenna types) is more careful than typical EIRP-to-flux estimates; and the paper is commendably candid in §5 about the UEMR catalogue limitations, proposing a concrete measurement campaign to remedy them. The qualitative conclusions — visible-satellite counts rising sharply after 2028, UEMR dominating over spectrally localised IEMR, and shielding being the only broad-band mitigation — are robust to the catalogue uncertainties and constitute a useful, falsifiable baseline for the community.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.3, §4.4, Fig. 7] The headline quantitative result — 'uniform UEMR shielding of at least 31.40 dB', set at the worst frequency 410.9 MHz (Fig. 7) — is pinned by modelled power in a regime where the UEMR catalogue contains no measurements. Section 5 concedes directly measured UEMR extends only to ~230 MHz, with higher-frequency content synthesized from harmonics to order n=8 whose peak heights are taken from 'the relative maxima of the sidelobes of a sinc-squared response' (§3.3). That envelope corresponds to an idealised rectangular-pulse waveform; real digital/clock leakage envelopes are set by slew rates, spread-spectrum clocking, and filtering, and can fall off considerably faster or slower. For a ~51 MHz fundamental, 410.9 MHz is the n=8 harmonic — the most suppressed under a sinc² rule — so the single frequency that fixes the shielding number is one whose modelled amplitude is a convention. I do not
  2. [§4.3–4.4, Figs. 5 and 7] The maximum-RFI spectrum of Figs. 5 and 7 is a stochastic object: occurrence-fraction on/off draws, Gaussian EIRP sampling, and uniform draws of narrowband centre frequencies (§3.3) all feed it, over ~3×10^4 timesteps per year. No seed-to-seed spread or convergence diagnostic is reported anywhere. Because the shielding requirement is set by the single largest value in the maximum spectrum, it is precisely the statistic most sensitive to realisation noise. The authors should run multiple realisations (the code is open source, so this is a modest computational request) and report the dispersion of both the worst-bin power and the derived 31.40 dB figure. If the spread is small, stating so strengthens the result considerably; if it is not, an uncertainty band is required.
  3. [§2 (Eq. 1), §4.3–4.4, Figs. 5 and 7] The effective sensitivity curve in Figs. 5 and 7 (purple, '1 s integration') is load-bearing for the shielding criterion, yet the manuscript never states the numerical inputs to Eq. (1) used to produce it: T_sys (and its frequency dependence across 0.1–2700 MHz), η_s, n_pol, and the assumed usable bandwidth Δν per channel. Eq. (1) gives the radiometer equation but no values appear in §2 or §3.1, and Table 1 lists only gains. A 0.1 MHz channel width can be inferred from §3.3, but T_sys at 0.1 MHz versus 2.5 GHz for an LFT3-like system differs by orders of magnitude and directly shifts the 31.40 dB requirement dB-for-dB. The assumed values (or a reference to DeBoer et al. 2026 with explicit citation of which numbers were taken) must be stated.
minor comments (8)
  1. [Appendix A, Table A1] The Appendix heading 'APPENDIX A:' appears with no title text; Table A1 itself is present and useful. Please also clarify the 'Luna26 End' entry (2029) versus the 'Luna26' 12-month lifetime starting 2028 — presumably a mission-extension placeholder, but this should be explained in the table caption.
  2. [Abstract, §4.4] The shielding analysis (Fig. 7) applies only to UEMR, while Fig. 5 shows IEMR maxima near 2.4–2.6 GHz also exceeding the sensitivity curve from 2028 onward. The text is technically clear on this, but the abstract phrase 'place the maximum interference below the sensitivity' could be read as covering all RFI; suggest 'maximum unintended interference' in the abstract for precision.
  3. [§3.1, Table 1] Table 1 leaves gaps in LFT3 coverage (50–60 MHz, 260–300 MHz). It is unclear how received power is treated in these gaps in Figs. 4–7 — zero gain, nearest antenna, or interpolation? One sentence in §3.1 would resolve this.
  4. [§3 (timestep choice)] The 500 s timestep is justified only by computational cost. For a ~100 km orbit (period ~2 h), 500 s is a substantial fraction of a farside transit; please comment on whether the instantaneous-maximum statistics (Figs. 2, 5) are sensitive to this cadence, even if only via a spot check at finer resolution for one month.
  5. [§3.4, Eq. (6)] Eq. (6): 'PFD ii(ν, t)' appears to be a typo for F_i(ν, t) from Eq. (5); the subscript is duplicated. Also 'Moon-fixed coordination system' should read 'coordinate system' (§3.4).
  6. [Various] Several typos and grammar slips: 'such fast radio bursts' → 'such as fast radio bursts' (abstract and §1); 'noticably' → 'noticeably' (§4.3); 'attentuation' → 'attenuation' (Fig. 7 caption); 'decline of UEMR about 1.5 GHz' → 'above 1.5 GHz' (§6); 'a LFT3-like' → 'an LFT3-like' throughout.
  7. [Fig. 3] Fig. 3 shows a colourbar only on the 2028 panel; since the three panels span very different pass densities, please state whether the colour scale is common across panels or per-panel, and if per-panel, add colourbars to all three.
  8. [References] Reference list inconsistencies: 'Grigg, D. et al. 2025' has a malformed author list; the entries 'Aerospace F.,', 'Lavochkin N.,', 'Technologies V. S.,', 'Ltd S. S. T.' are alphabetised and formatted as personal names — please regularise these corporate/website citations.

Circularity Check

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Forward simulation from external mission catalogue and assumed emission models; no derivation reduces to its inputs by construction.

full rationale

FEARLESS is a forward Monte-Carlo geometry-and-propagation model: a planned-mission orbital catalogue, separate IEMR/UEMR emission templates, free-space path loss, and an LFT3-like receiver response are composed to produce time-frequency received-power spectra and a derived uniform-shielding figure (31.40 dB at 410.9 MHz). None of these outputs is algebraically or statistically forced by the definition of the inputs. LFT3 gains, beams, site coordinates, and 1 s sensitivity (from coauthored DeBoer et al. 2026) define the instrument under test; they do not encode the satellite-population growth or the shielding number. Harmonic envelopes, Gaussian spectral shapes, occurrence fractions, and EIRP scatters are modeling choices whose adequacy the paper itself flags in §5; weak or synthetic high-frequency UEMR is an assumption/correctness risk, not circularity. There is no fit-then-predict loop, no uniqueness theorem imported from the authors, and no renaming of a known empirical law. The central claims are simulation outputs under stated assumptions, not tautologies.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

8 free parameters · 6 axioms · 1 invented entities

The forecast is an engineering propagation of assumed orbits and emission catalogues through standard link-budget and antenna-response formulas. Almost all numerical bite comes from catalogue choices (which missions, when, what EIRP and duty cycle) and from the UEMR spectral model (measured low-frequency bands plus harmonic extrapolation), not from new physics. No new particles or forces; the invented piece is the simulation assembly and the representative emission library.

free parameters (8)
  • UEMR EIRP means, scatters, band edges, and occurrence fractions per catalogue entry = catalogue-specific; not a single global fit
    Drawn from measured or representative leakage bands; when ‘on’, EIRP is sampled from a Gaussian. These set the absolute received-power scale and thus the shielding dB figure.
  • IEMR centre frequencies, EIRPs, and Gaussian widths (mostly 2.4–2.6 GHz)
    Assigned per satellite from an input catalogue; dominate the narrow intended-emission spikes.
  • Harmonic order cutoff n=8 and sinc-squared relative harmonic amplitudes = n_max=8
    Used to populate UEMR above the ~230 MHz measured ceiling; directly shapes the high-frequency contamination and the worst-frequency shielding requirement.
  • Narrowband vs broadband UEMR cutoff (1 MHz) = 1 MHz
    Arbitrary threshold that switches how centre frequency and width are drawn (§3.3).
  • Simulation timestep 500 s = 500 s
    Chosen for cost/resolution tradeoff; affects sampling of short high-contamination intervals.
  • Representative orbital elements and lifetimes where public data are incomplete
    Table A1 fills missing a, e, i, Ω, etc., from analogues; controls visibility statistics after ~2028.
  • LFT3 peak gains and beam model (dipole 2.15 dBi, patch 8 dBi, Vivaldi array 23.8 dBi) = Table 1
    Taken from the LFT3 concept; convert flux to received power and set the sensitivity comparison curve.
  • Uniform shielding attenuation S_sh grid (0–40 dB) = 31.40 dB required in baseline run
    Applied equally to all satellites’ UEMR to isolate attenuation effect; 31.40 dB is the value that meets the max-below-sensitivity criterion in this run.
axioms (6)
  • domain assumption Spacecraft below the local lunar horizon contribute zero RFI (perfect body occultation by the Moon).
    Stated in §3.4; ignores diffraction, surface multipath, and plasma effects at the lowest frequencies.
  • domain assumption Received flux follows free-space EIRP/(4πR²) with no lunar or cislunar propagation medium.
    Equation (5); standard far-field vacuum link budget.
  • standard math Antenna effective area is A_eff=λ²G/(4π) with direction-dependent gain from peak-gain and beamweight models oriented to zenith.
    Equations (2) and (6); standard antenna theory applied per LFT3 component.
  • ad hoc to paper IEMR and UEMR spectral features are adequately represented by normalised Gaussians (plus optional harmonics).
    §3.3; drives the continuous UEMR background appearance in Figures 4–5 and 7.
  • domain assumption Radiometer-equation sensitivity for 1 s integration is the right benchmark for ‘below instrument sensitivity’ shielding.
    Equation (1) and Figures 5 and 7; longer integrations or different science cases tighten the requirement, as the authors note.
  • domain assumption Only missions with enough public data to assign approximate orbits and emissions are included; missing future architectures are omitted.
    §3.2 and §5; catalogue incompleteness biases contamination low relative to a fuller build-out.
invented entities (1)
  • FEARLESS simulation framework independent evidence
    purpose: End-to-end modular pipeline from mission catalogue → visibility → IEMR/UEMR → LFT3 received power vs time/frequency.
    Software/method invention, not a physical entity; independent evidence is the public code release and the reproducible catalogue-driven outputs.

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Technological progress is a double-edged sword in the world of radio astronomy: improvements in antennas, receivers, and digital backends increase sensitivity, but rapid growth in terrestrial and orbital communications has caused a steep rise in radio-frequency interference (RFI). Modern datasets have become increasingly contaminated by RFI that is difficult to remove and can mimic or obscure astrophysical signals, complicating the search for objects such fast radio bursts (FRBs), pulsars, and technosignatures. The lunar farside has such been proposed as a site for radio-quiet observations, motivating missions such as the Lunar Farside Transients and Technology Telescope (LFT3) and others. However, planned lunar missions may introduce intended and unintended radio emissions into this protected environment. We use a LFT3-like instrument to model the evolution of the apparent lunar farside RFI environment over the coming years. Using a planned lunar mission catalogue and models for intended and unintended emissions, we estimate the received RFI over the 0.1-2700 MHz frequency range. We find that while intended emissions are concentrated near communications bands, particularly 2.4-2.6 GHz, unintended emissions contaminate broad regions of the LFT3 band. We further find that, under the assumptions of our model, uniform UEMR shielding of at least 30 dB is required to place the maximum interference below the sensitivity of a LFT3-like instrument; more sensitive telescopes would require higher UEMR shielding. We predict that the lunar farside will remain usable for LFT3-like observations, but will become increasingly contaminated as the lunar satellite population grows. This highlights the decreasing window of opportunity for measurements of the lunar farside's radio quiet environment and should inform future mission design and policy choices for the protection of Moon-based radio science.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.24527 by Charlie K. Ashe, David R. DeBoer, Ella J. Marshall, Evan F. Keane, Richard Lynch, Steve Prabu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the model pipeline [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Summary statistics of visible-satellite counts for January and July from 2025 to 2029. The maximum represents the largest instantaneous visible￾satellite count recorded during the month, the mean and 95th percentiles were computed from daily mean values within each month. to identify which parts of the LFT3 observing bands are most at-risk of contamination, how the RFI environment evolves as new satellites… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Sky-position maps of satellite-pass density for 2028, 2029, and 2030. Colour indicates the number of satellite passes through each azimuth-elevation bin, with dark blue corresponding to a low-pass density, and yellow to red corresponding to a high-pass density. 4.2 Sky Distribution [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Simulated unintended electromagnetic radiation (UEMR) and intended electromagnetic radiation (IEMR) received by an LFT3-like instrument from 2027 to 2030. Each panel shows received power as a function of frequency and simulation timestep for one calendar year for the 0.1 − 3000 MHz region. 2029 and 2030 as additional satellites enter the modelled population. By the end of the simulated period, the IEMR com… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Maximum and median simulated RFI spectrum plotted against the effective sensitivity of a LFT3-like instrument for a 1-s integration. The black curve shows the maximum received RFI power as a function of frequency for each year, the grey curve shows the median received RFI power as a function of frequency for each year, and the purple curve shows the effective sensitivity at each frequency. 4.4 Effects of S… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Integrated received UEMR power as a function of satellite shielding effectiveness. The dark curve shows the median power, and the lighter curve shows the 95th percentile. the necessity for communications relays, e.g. retrieving astronomical data on Earth, means some loss of this nature is almost inevitable in the absence of long-distant fibre-optic cabling across the lunar surface (Probst et al. 2026). In … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Frequency-dependent shielding requirements for a LFT3-like instrument. The top panel compares the unshielded maximum UEMR spectrum with the spectrum after applying 31.40 dB of attentuation. The shaded region shows the sensitivity of a LFT3-like instrument for a 1 s integration. The bottom panel shows the minimum shielding required for each frequency. has direct implications not only for the timing of LFT3,… view at source ↗

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