[blam]

These micro-satellites are causing havoc with astronomers.

[BiglyCommentary]

Wonder how they deal with the latency issue with sats?

[TexasGator]

“These micro-satellites are causing havoc with astronomers.”

Not really.

[wildcard_redneck]

"These micro-satellites are causing havoc with astronomers."

They are going to have to get over it. The future of astronomy is in space anyway. Observing the universe from Earth's surface is difficult due to our atmosphere and light pollution.

[Pollard]

He should have put a telescope on the backside of them so we could look at the stars with our computers 24/7/365. Kind of like google earth but looking outwards in real time.

[familyop]

"These micro-satellites are causing havoc with astronomers."

Amazon ("project Kuiper") and Samsung (doing a lot of business with companies like Apple and Sony) are also launching constellations of satellites. I don't expect those companies to be very agreeable with free speech.

Caution about believing or least further disseminating some of the publicity might be wise. Because when one competitor gets ahead, others will temporarily publish and broadcast negatives about the technology in general. If they were to get ahead of of Musk's Starlink, they would be likely to swing towards promoting the technology. I've recently seen that pattern in propaganda. Some of the global corporations and politicians know that most people have short or dimming memories.

[PLMerite]

“These micro-satellites are causing havoc with astronomers.”

Yeah, they’re not gonna know which little white dot becomes the Enterprise.