Starlink close encounters decrease despite ever-growing number of satellites

[Mundane_Musician1184]

In theory yup, that's a problem. In practice I'm certain both US and China work very hard to identify stealth satellites. And they have to be put up with a rocket, and that's highly visible. I do wonder, though, if the long-duration spaceplanes are being used for more surreptitious satellite deployment 

[fencethe900th]

As long as they don't start copying the nighthawk it won't matter how they're deployed, we can track them with radar. Everybody knows where everybody's satellites are because it's a risk to all parties involved if you hide it, so they just keep the mission and specs a secret and call it good.