> why these issues weren't raised when the spectrum was being allocated Because they are bogus. This is riding on a wave of populism, at a time when journalist

> why these issues weren't raised when the spectrum was being allocated Because they are bogus. This is riding on a wave of populism, at a time when journalists woke up to an "Elon's train" and twitter was buzzing with many people who saw a satellite with their naked eye for their first time. Actual professional astronomers would either realize this is not such a big problem, or would raise the issues during the spectrum allocation, or would raise issues during the whole time SpaceX was showing animations of the finished constellation to all their fans etc etc... there was a lot of time, no way somebody whose project depended on free skies wouldn't be prepared.