How don’t we see huge satellite shaped shadows cast on the earth? Wouldn’t satellites be between the sun and the earth meaning that they’d cast a shadow on us?
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I live close to an airport.
If a BIG plane flies above my house, going at 300-500kmk, I can see a quick shadow passing on me, very very quick, almost unnoticeable.
A satellite is very small, less than a meter, traveling at 10000 km/h and more. Even if you are there and hit by the shadow, your eyes would not have the time to see it.
Last, air refracts the light, so the further away an object is the more blurry is it’s shadow, I bet that the satellite is way too far to cast a observable shadow anyway.
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