I. Introduction: The Changing Texture of the Night Amidst the Onset of Satellite Constellations For the vast majority of human history, the night sky was viewed as a static, immutable canopy. It was a realm of permanence that served as a navigational aid for mariners, a calendar for agricultural societies, and a canvas for our earliest mythologies. While the occasional comet or meteor provided a fleeting spectacle, the stars themselves were fixed points of reference. In the m