If you reflect light from a source with some closing velocity to Earth:

you get one axial Doppler shift. If all the mirrors you reflect it off after the first are moving with the Earth there still one and only one shift. Writers on the Lorentz transformation using the results the original aether wined analysis have the red shift canceling the blue.

Look at attached PDF file for details and the big impact on the concept of mass.

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