https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transiting_Exoplanet_Survey_Sa...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/musk-on-starlink-internet-sa...
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-ma...
Great, why doesn't Musk trade in Ivory? There's a tidy profit to be had. Maybe he can donate a couple dollars to PETA, and everything's fine.
> On July 6, 2016, a near-total ban on commercial trade in African elephant ivory went into effect in the United States.
Hard to make a profit when you're shut down by the government.
> Not the greedy entrepreneurs littering the sky with Internet access satellites.
The "littering" will be done not just by "greedy entrepreneurs" but by millions of people who will pay for faster internet, and by astronomers who want better telescopes.
Also, space telescopes are very expensive, so we have a very small number-- we're not going to ever have enough to look at as much of the sky as we'd like to look at. We've got hundreds of thousands of 0.3 meter scopes out there, employed by everything from outright amateurs to citizen-scientists to auxiliary observing and discovery for research astronomers. We can't give all these people time on orbiting telescopes.
The more satellites are launched the more money SpaceX gets to develop starship, starship reduces the cost of launching satellites and increases the maximum volume of the satellite, with cheaper launches and cheaper mirrors that do not need complex folding launching space telescope becomes cheaper than building a telescope on the earth, which means that new telescopes will be built for space.