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Here are the links to Meredith's opinion piece and Nature's podcast, for further background.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03725-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03968-8

There's a pretty scary visualisation by Alejandro Borlaff in Meredith's piece showing what ESA's future ARRAKIHS mission would see in a single wide-field exposure if all currently proposed LEO constellations containing 560,000 satellites (!) actually get built. I've added screenshots here.

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