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croestoday at 6:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

They hinder the view on asteroids coming our way.

The purpose of most of these satellites is internet access where we already have less limited possibilities with less maintenance costs like constant replacement


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Legend2440today at 6:39 PM

No they don't. It's more of an issue for long-exposure galaxies and nebula.

And asteroids are an extremely rare threat in the first place. It's literally a once-in-a-million-years kind of event.

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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 6:57 PM

> They hinder the view on asteroids coming our way

Source?

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