As a partner and collaborator of the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (CPS), the EPFL Space Center contributed to several studies that evaluate the growing impact of satellite interference on astronomical observations. Together with the SKACH team, tools to associate radio astronomy observations with satellite overflight information were developed in order to provide the RFI mitigation methods with relevant data required to identify contaminated observations.
In collaboration with the University of Geneva, the EPFL Space Center participated to a study to detect space object observations in the data acquired with the CHEOPS space telescope. The 60 cm TELESTO telescope at the Observatory of Geneva received a number of hard and software upgrades in order to enable it for satellite tracking and precise brightness measurements.