By chance, I may be able to open this debate up from past experience. During 1986, the European Space Agency announced a competition to celebrate the centenary of the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. With the help of Alan Jefferson, at the time senior lecturer in the Aero & Astro dept university of Southampton; we presented the concept of a Space Chronometer, an orbiting hour, minute and second hand giving Greenwich Mean Time to the entire planet. At the time of the result we received an honour's exceptional, (and dare I say, were both credited with the same technological foresight as Gustav Eiffel a century before. Soon afterwards, I helped out the Eiffel Tower at an major Aerospace conference in Brighton, who were presenting the competition results. Particularly there were people of the highest level attending, and I had the interesting experience of having the Secretary general for the European Space Agency stand in front of me to announce; "This project shall not fly . . . it harm's science". Our proposal, The Space Chronometer, was later published in Leonardo. Again, not long after that conference there was very wide publicity in the likes of New Scientist, denouncing the whole idea of anything orbiting the planet that would detract from humanities view of the surrounding universe. I have to say I am amazed that the astronomical science community has remained so silent about this ongoing deployment.
Now, by pure chance, being the inventor of the camera phone with GPS, I have had some experience of dealing with the United States Federal Communications Commission, FCC, and I am not at all surprised that they have taken it upon themselves to set about the destruction of our view. Again, we must also assume that these satellites will be transmitting 5G which many, including me; believe such transmissions to be presenting an existential threat to the health of humanity. And when that existential threat becomes a reality; and the health of humanity becomes deeply affected by the transmissions; how are we going to bring a stop to their mission? Food for thought?