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Re:Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms by sebzim4500 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:31PM (#27895905)
> but at what cost?

A decent portion of exposures will have to be thrown out, and some types of sky surveys will only be possible from space.

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Re:Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms by Robotbeat on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:31PM (#27896651)
That isn’t strictly true. There are changes to the design of the instrument that the makers could’ve incorporated that would be better at dealing with the effects of satellite trails which has been a thing since Sputnik. They chose not to implement that capability, even though satellite constellations and proposed mega constellations have been a thing since well before Vera Rubin was designed.
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