While the individual constellations of Iceye or Planet don’t pose risks to astronomy, given the small number of satellites compared to megaconstellations like Starlink, astronomers are concerned that large numbers of such constellations could, combined, interfere with astronomy.

This is the part that really stood out to me.

It’s great that Starlink was proactive on working with the FCC on this and that’s starting to morph into a standard, even for smaller constellations that wouldn’t have a big impact on their own.

I’m hoping that something similar will start to happen for deorbit provisions.