For those who understand radio this could become a real problem. It's comparable to using spark gap transmitters. In context with the sensitive equipment we use today. One of the reasons our modern sensitive equipment works so well......is because we have standards, conditions and restrictions on the emissions we can legally manufacture. There are no spark gap transmitters permitted today.......except in orbit and space, it now appears from the article. What I mean by that is that international emission treaties apparently are not valid in space/orbit. This is real bad juju.
There are many multiples of, and sub multiples of, plus un-related frequencies, that are used to manufacture the RX and the TX frequencies. In the U.S. and other countries, only the licensed frequency can be emitted. All other frequencies have to be suppressed to a certain ratio of the TX signal power. Some restrictions apply to limit these spurious signals......no matter what the TX power. There are many other restrictions also. We would need a textbook to go thru them.
Anyhow, if this is not suppressed and controlled, the far side of the moon might be the only place left to listen to the stars. This is terrible news about the filthiness of our sat emissions. And there is no excuse for it with today's tech, except for cost. So now we not only have space debris clutter, we have a RF clutter zone along with it. An antenna array can track and nail down an interference source in a heartbeat. It's not a probability.