Not that Oneweb and SpaceX plans are new, there has been countless post on CN about this already....
Some of the uninformed complaints here,
which strikes me as odd considering a crowd in this hobby I would expect would be good at making observations and drawing reasonable conclusions from them,
makes me more sad than all the concept of human pollution, because here we do the same by polluting the forums up with unreasonable opinions and noise that overwhelms good signal.
What I don't understand is do many of you that fear some effect on astrophotography not live near any civilization or airport?
You cannot tell me given the air traffic that is only going to increase around the world,
will be less of an issue that small objects that are in LEO orbit.
The objects will be easily predictable, both in the time, location and brightness (if any).
Planes that fly overhead don't offer any of the sort listed above.....
So if you really cared about astrophotography, then at least complain about planes and city light pollution with a higher intensity than small cubesats and such....
And I bet if I challenged you all to go spot more than one Globalstar or O3B or more than one Iridium satellite on a night I bet many here wouldn't even succeed at that....
Just drop the light pollution argument. It's just uninformed ignorance.
Instead do spend energy on the real danger of a cascading chain reaction of collisions that might make use of certain orbits (or space travel through them) quite impossible for hundreds of years into the future.....