No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth

The European Southern Observatory is proposing limits on Earth's orbiting satellites. According to ESO, no more than one hundred thousand faint satellites should be permitted in orbit — a threshold meant to protect ground-based telescopes from light pollution and preserve the future of astronomical observations.

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