Space Companies Did Not Pollute Our Night Sky for Billions of Years and Should Not Do So in the… - Avi Loeb – Medium

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues that commercial satellite deployments are degrading the night sky and threatening a shared cultural and scientific resource. Recent incidents, including a Starlink satellite that lost contact and fragmented into dozens of pieces, underline how anomalies can produce extra debris and visible streaks that interfere with aurora viewing, long-exposure photography, and ground-based astronomy. The piece places satellite proliferation and the rising rate of fragmentation events in the broader debate over commercialization of Earth orbit and long-term impacts on observations of celestial events.