Report on Mega-Constellations to the Government of Canada and the\n Canadian Space Agency
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This document provides recommendations to the Government of Canada and the\nCanadian Space Agency in response to their call for feedback on the future of\nCanadian space exploration. The report focuses on how the construction and\nlong-term placement of mega-constellations of satellites into Earth orbit will\naffect astronomy and the view of the night sky by all peoples, with attention\nto all Canadians. The broader discussion highlights several environmental\nconcerns associated with the construction and maintenance of these\nmega-constellations. The eight recommendations here address ways that Canada\ncan play a role in mitigating some of these negative effects through national\nand international initiatives. In drafting the recommendations, we take the\napproach that space needs to be developed sustainably. In this regard, we use\nthe Brundtland Report's definition: "Sustainable development is the development\nthat meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future\ngenerations to meet their own needs." Thus, all recommendations here are made\nwith the intent of minimizing the negative consequences of mega-constellations,\nwhile also recognizing that their development will continue.\n
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it