"As of today, more than 10,000 active #Starlink #satellites are in #space, constituting about two thirds of all satellites that are currently in orbit. That’s a number that would have seemed unbelievable just a decade ago. 'Starlink has changed our relationship with space,' says Hugh Lewis, a space debris expert at the University of Birmingham in England. 'The character of the night sky is no longer the same as it once was, and I’m not sure it will ever be again.'"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-reaches-milestone-of-10-000-starlink-satellites-in-orbit/