This is another reason for the Uber/Tesla/Lyft vision of the robotaxi future. If a service can provide both the cost-effectiveness and autonomy of a taxi network, there's a generation of tech-savvy buyers that will be grateful to take the car shopping/ownership costs out of their lives.
I wonder how much it would cost to get a decent camera on one of those Starlink launch missions just so it would beam down some distortion free, high-resolution pictures to the masses.
Although I doubt that would provide meaningful data to professional astronomer.
Yeah, using -L you can shell redirect to a workable log file. I've done this a few times. They also build the asc2bin conversion utility to convert any logs to the more common *.bin format.