<2>Startup Plans April Launch for a Satellite to Reflect Sunlight to Earth at Night
<3>Revolutionary Technology to Brighten Up the Night
According to a recent article by the Washington Post, a start-up called Reflect Orbital proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night, with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites, and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight.
Slashdot noted their idea in 2022, but Reflect Orbital now expects to launch its first satellite in April, according to the article. “But its grand vision is largely ‘aspirational,’ as its young founder, Ben Nowack, told me…”
Reflect Orbital’s Nowack describes a scene right out of sci-fi: An extremely bright star appears on the northern horizon and makes its way across the sky, illuminating a 5-kilometer circle on Earth, then setting on the southern horizon about five minutes later, just as another such “star” appears in the north. To make the night even brighter, a customer could make 10 “stars” appear at once in the north by ordering them on an