Space Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says December 7, 20255:07 PM ET By Chandelis Duster The Hubble Space Telescope drifts through space in a picture taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997. A study finds reflections cast by satellites could ruin images taken by telescopes. NASA via/ hide caption toggle caption NASA via/ Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study.