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Would air cherenkov telescopes be significantly affected by additional satellites in orbit? It sounds like they're designed to detect high energy gamma rays striking the atmosphere, so probably not?



In practice they are looking for very weak flashes of light, adding extra background light obviously reduced sensitivity.




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