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Originally Posted by JeniSkunk
Somewhat late in learning of this thread.
What you suggest is only partially useful. What else is needed, needs to be applied, once you have the sky cleared of clouds.
Clearing out all those swarms of satellites. Being able to zap them with a signal so they make a bee-line for whatever mob ordered their launch.
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That would be the Starlink satellite swarm, which are Elon Musk's project. He pretty much seems to be ignoring the concerns of the astronomy community, other than testing painting some of them to reduce reflectivity, which i suspect is just a panacea. Unfortunately he has US FCC permission to launch these things, and that is all he needs. It pretty much follows the attitude that space is there to be exploited, which is how the planet became so messed up. Ultimately we all may have to buy time share on high orbit (above the swarm) telescope platforms, or Moon based observatories; and I am sure SpaceX will be happy to transport the gear up there (for a price).