Planned satellite constellations may swamp future orbiting telescopes

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Despite warnings of the various potential issues (including a rather catastrophic one in the Kessler Syndrome) it seems nothing is really getting in the way of these constellations going up anyways.

I won't necessarily cast a shadow on them (we do need infrastructure for communications, etc) but I can't help but to wonder..
..when and if something goes wrong, I am betting that is will be 99% on the public (i.e. taxpayer dollars) to fix. Not only ours, but globally.

It's a shame that cynicism has to be the order of the day, but I can't help but feeling we're heading into yet another situation wherein the profits are privatized and the losses will be socialized.
 
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