Certainly something should be done to reduce reflectivity, but so many of these pieces about the impact on astronomers are missing the longer view. The sky is going to get more and more crowded as we expand into space, and while terrestrial observatories are amazing, the future of space observation and exploration is, after all, in space.
It's the destiny of the night sky to be filled with our spacecraft. This will surely impact terrestrial astronomy, but a falcon heavy costs $97 million, and would enable detection of threats we'd be otherwise blind to if we stuck to terrestrial observations.
It's the destiny of the night sky to be filled with our spacecraft. This will surely impact terrestrial astronomy, but a falcon heavy costs $97 million, and would enable detection of threats we'd be otherwise blind to if we stuck to terrestrial observations.