"A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth."
https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938

PS: A deeply revolting idea. Apart from destroying Earth-based astronomy, boosting satellite collisions, and overpopulating orbital space needed for other purposes, this would be the largest enclosure of a commons in human history.

It would be like spray-painting graffiti on the walls of the grand canyon, but worse because not everyone can see the walls of the grand canyon. Or like carving Elon Musk's initials in every tree on Earth. Or like destroying silence with an omnipresent 60-cycle hum.

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.

The Conversation

Update. "Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say,"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/05/satellite-mirror-plans-could-disrupt-sleep-and-ecosystems-worldwide-scientists-say

"Presidents of four international scientific societies representing about 2,500 researchers from more than 30 countries are among those who have raised concerns in letters to the US Federal Communications Commission (#FCC)…Altering the light-dark cycle could disrupt biological clocks that regulate sleep and hormone secretion in humans and animals, migration in nocturnal species, seasonal cycles in plants and the rhythms of marine phytoplankton that underpin ocean food webs."

#ElonMusk #Geoengineering #SpaceX

Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say

Letters to US agency raise concerns over tech firm’s plans to use reflective satellites and expand numbers in low Earth orbit

The Guardian