All Those Low-Cost Satellites in Orbit Could Be Weaponized by Hackers, Warns Expert

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3. They're already on it.

SpaceX created these small sats with a very narrow profile and an automatic de-orbit function should a satellite malfunction. Their albedo has already been significantly reduced from the first batch and, once an individual satellite reaches end-of-life, it can be maneuvered to occlude individual stars for the astronomers, on demand. I figure they'll help snapshot myriads of exoplanets.

The cool kids all know the real astronomy hot spot is on the far side of the Moon, anyway.