Satellite Boom Could Obscure the Night Sky, Threatening Telescopes
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A European Southern Observatory study warns that rapid growth of satellite megaconstellations could soon brighten and streak the night sky to a point where ground-based telescopes become unusable, forcing longer exposure times and higher costs; proposals like Reflect Orbital’s space mirrors could worsen the issue, prompting regulatory and international-law considerations and calls from astronomers to mitigate the impact on science and the public’s view of the sky.
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- "Beyond the limit": one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky ESO.org
- ESO Study Finds That No More Than 100,000 Satellites Should Orbit Earth Gizmodo
- Orbit overload could devastate astronomy if 1.7 million proposed satellites brighten night sky Phys.org
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