It was never "legal" but it wasn't specifically illegal either.

Space-based businesses are hoping to grandfather themselves in once laws are established about the use of space, and betting that by then whatever service they offer will be seen as indispensable.

I'm sometimes baffled how people's knee jerk reaction is to think how to ban this. And yet those same people complain about their parents that claimed that Rock'n'Roll or DnD should be banned because it's satanic.

This is literally the coolest thing we as a species achieved that doesn't serve self-preservation purposes.

There’s a lot of space in space. This is not to scale.

That is not how orbital mechanics work.

US runs the show. Anything is possible.

Why would it be illegal? There are virtually zero drawbacks and huge advantages to these satellites. They are not rendered to scale either, in reality they are minuscule compared to the amount of available space. There’s room for millions more spacecraft.