Just in case collisions in orbit aren't depressing enough, here's a super excited, cheery article with so many incredibly enthusiastic quotes from many astronomers about the start of full operations for the Vera Rubin Observatory! And I got to provide the doom-quote about satellites causing serious loss of data (I also provided lots of excited, enthusiastic quotes about science! But doom-quote won I guess...) https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/vera-c-rubin-observatory-begins-its-long-awaited-all-sky-survey/