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The satellites are not only small, they are also fast. A fast moving satellite can only occlude a 100 light years away object for a couple of microseconds before it passes. This is absolutely negligible for an astronomical observation lasting seconds to minutes. And even if you launched billions of opaque satellites they couldn't come close to blocking a big enough percentage of the sky for this to matter at all.



There go my hopes for an effective planetary sunshade in LEO...


That should probably be at L1 anyway.

That's where it can shade 24h/day.




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