https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ works much better for astronomy than google scholar, my search query was "starlink" and limited to

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ works much better for astronomy than google scholar, my search query was "starlink" and limited to astronomy papers. My research is theory (not directly affected), so most of my background on this has come from grumblings over beers and the occasional talk (so I'm not really in the loop). Satellites (and other forms of interference such as RFI) have always been a problem for some groups (basically, anyone with long exposures, wide exposures or working with faint sources, it all comes down to the probability of a satellite appearing in the field of view mixed with how bad that is), but it's the massive increase in numbers plus the move over the last ~10 years to looking for transients (LSST is the poster child here, but there are lots of others) that have made it a more community-wide issue. Other groups have been mentioned (I recall Amazon being mentioned), but the "focusing on Starlink" thing might be a reflection of what pop-science reports, and what's actually able to be measured being published.