It's a campaign so the rich people can eat meat but we all have to get diabetes to save the planet.

They've already approved testing and the launch was approved prior. The benefits of having global 5g coverage from an economic, environmental, national defense, and efficiency perspective outweigh brightness issues (which may be addressed) and interference issues (which is why they're testing with BW3 before launching 300 satellites).

They stated in their recent conference call they've been in touch with groups in the astronomy community and are working to produce future sats with solutions to reduce the magnitude brightness if their sats.

Edit: https://twitter.com/CatSE___ApeX___/status/1597621637423460352?s=20&t=Tgc4prmirmd_U0VH5Uu1pw

You're right about the problems assiciated with how we treat what should be a utility more or less or at least supported like one. But thw cost of providing full coverage increases basically exponentially as you attempt to provide access to more and more rural locations until it becomes uneconomical and not too environmentally friendly. NTN is the only cost effective way to provide full coverage. AST is trying to provide what is likeky the most efficient solution for rural coverage, high demand IoT, FirstNet coverage, disaster relief, and coverage for national security.

Thats ridiculous. They aren't flooding anywhere with the entire spectrum. They will get assigned spectrum just like everyone else. And it will have to be assigned in a non interference basis.