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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a challenge last Friday from DISH Network and the nonprofit DarkSky, which sought to halt the deployment of SpaceX's second-generation Starlink network in low Earth orbit.

The crux of the issue was a December 2022 Federal Communications Commission approval of SpaceX's 7,500 next-gen Starlink satellites. Dish and DarkSky have opposed SpaceX's expanding satellite constellation in LEO, arguing these new satellites would produce too much light and potentially disrupt astronomy and wildlife. 

Here's more from PCMag:

"Affirming an FCC decision to approve a SpaceX satellite constellation, the DC Circuit has rejected claims by the International Dark-Sky Association that sought to overturn the FCC decision on light pollution grounds," FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote on X, adding, "Good news for satellite services." 

Yet another classic lawfare tactic by Musk's opponents, similar to when Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin filed a comment to the Federal Aviation Administration last month, indicating that SpaceX's Starship-Super Heavy launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, should be limited for "environmental scrutiny due to their impact on the local environment and community."