Ars Technica
• John Timmer
NASA: Half‑Million Planned LEO Satellites Could Contaminate Nearly All Space Telescope Images
A NASA study and simulations show the exponential growth of low‑Earth orbit constellations — potentially ~500,000 satellites by the 2030s — will sharply increase optical "light pollution," contaminating and severely degrading images from Hubble and other space‑based observatories.
