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I'm a very big fan of astronomy, but I can't seem to care at all about satellites blocking terrestrial telescopes. Ubiquitous connectivity is simply a larger concern than land based telescopes.

Further, space based telescopes seem to be the future of the discipline. While land based radio telescopes are less effected by satellites.

A bigger concern is Kepler syndrome, but that threat seems minimal in LEO.



Kessler syndome, not Kepler, just FYI


Yes, thank you. Too late to edit =/


Land based will have an important role to play for a long time simply because we can easily service, upgrade and design new experiments for them which for a long time isn't going to be easy for space telescopes.




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