The surface of the earth is 196.9 million miles square. Low earth orbit contains just a little more area. 10k satellites for broadband killing internet isn't ba

The surface of the earth is 196.9 million miles square. Low earth orbit contains just a little more area. 10k satellites for broadband killing internet isn't bad. Especially since we already have 5k up there already. Also there are about 5,000 airplanes flying at any given time. I think astronomers just want less reflective ones so they can look for asteroids.