Satellite swarms are threatening the night sky, with Industry forecasts of

more than 100,000 satellites in orbit by the end of the 2020s.


Communications Satellites by SpaceX's Starlink, Jeff Bezos’s Project

Kuiper, Richard Branson's OneWeb and others, will fill the future night sky with

an ever-increasing number of intrusive creeping dots which obstruct

​astronomers' viewings, leading to the question:

"Is low-Earth orbit the next great crucible of environmental conflict?"


"The fault in our stars" - Joshua Sokol
Science, 374 (6564), • DOI: 10.1126/science.acx9260