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"a sky filled with orbiting trademarks or political symbols. These billboards, perpetually overhead, from which there would be no escape on earth."
by timthelion 11y ago
"a sky filled with orbiting trademarks or political symbols. These billboards, perpetually overhead, from which there would be no escape on earth."
- adrianN 11y agoJust increase light pollution enough and the problem is solved :)
- jerf 11y agoOrbital mechanics doesn't make that feasible, though. You'd only be able to have something transiently appear in the sky, because satellites can't orbit around in lockstep like that. And it would be freakishly expensive even for that.
- ethanbond 11y agoIsn't that what geostationary orbit is? Unless I'm missing something here...
- dTal 11y agoTechnically yes, but geostationary is over 22 thousand miles out (nearly a hundred times as far away as the ISS). You'd need a big-ass billboard.
- ethanbond 11y agoAh, didn't consider that!
- jerf 11y agoUnless your logo is a straight line of dots (like Lastpass's recent logo change, I guess), you'd still have everything not on that line sine-wave wobbling once per day. You'd get one window of your logo looking good for maybe an hour or two, and 12 hours later, it would be upside down. Presumably you'd time it so your target audience sees the logo in the evening, but there are still some people likely to see it upside down in the sky. Marketing departments get fussy about things like that. Plus in that orbit you're much farther away, and need to be much brighter than the satellite proposed. You won't get "brightest star in the sky" with 12 sq meters of reflection from geosync. I'm pretty sure you'd get "effectively invisible".