Type: Talk
Session: Streaks, Flares, Glints, and Rubin Science
Authors: Meredith Rawls and Tony Tyson

Abstract: We review impacts of bright commercial low-Earth orbit satellites and debris on LSST science and the status of planned mitigations. We discuss the industry-wide move to offer "Direct2Cell" service that necessitates larger and thus brighter satellites, examples of impacts to science investigations, plans for detecting and masking streaks during operations, and updates on expected detections due to flares/glints. Overall, we anticipate the largest impacts on Rubin science — both static and transient — will be on the discovery of the astrophysically unexpected.