Astronomers are up in arms, protesting against a proposed constellation of tens of thousands of orbiting mirrors intended to reflect light onto ground-based solar power plants and SpaceX's envisioned one million orbiting data centers.
The projects, which have been put forward to the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval, would destroy the night sky as we know it and obscure the views of astronomical telescopes all over the world, hampering scientific progress, according to experts.
"This is really intolerable," Robert Massey, the deputy executive director at the British Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), told Space. Com. "It's absolutely the destruction of a central part of human heritage.
