Here’s One Way to Guard a Deep Space Antenna: Falcons
If you plonk a high-tech antenna in the middle of a nature reserve, your equipment is bound to attract nesting birds as well as avian poop. But since the mid-2000s, the European Space Agency has been deploying some pretty low-tech strategies against those threats: falcons.

October 14, 2015 at 08:38PM
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