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by pidge 2y ago
Soon available as a service https://www.reflectorbital.com/ https://www.reflectorbital.com/
- IncreasePosts 2y agoThat seems outrageous. Do they make any claims about how many watts or lumens they can deliver, and to what area?
- margalabargala 2y ago"As many as VC money is prepared to pay for" is the answer here.
- TrainedMonkey 2y agoAstronomers: Starlink constellation solar panels are ruining the astro photography. Reflect Orbital: That sounds like a startup idea! /s Russians also seemed to think that math could work out, but fumbled on funding and engineering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znamya_(satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znamya_(satellite)
- bee_rider 2y agoI’m pretty sure it is the eternal fate of Russian physicists to have worked out the math, but to not have the funding or engineering to implement a thing, right? So, I guess that fact, at least, doesn’t tell us much of anything.
- artificialprint 2y agoEternal fate of Russian physicist is to work it out on home soil, move to USA and help get it built there.
- alnwlsn 2y agoI refuse to believe this project isn't some sort of elaborate troll.
- kjs3 2y agoSome people have convinced themselves they can disrupt anything.
- notahacker 2y agoI'm sort of torn between that reaction and "hey, this seems similar logistics-wise to that space solar project I'm kicking off next week"...
- LtWorf 2y agoAsimov described a similar thing in I Robot. I imagine it'd create very unpredictable climate issues.
- perdomon 2y agoScrolljacking makes it impossible to get info from a website at a glance.
- ChiefNotAClue 2y agoDave from the EEVBlog did a take on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM
- lxgr 2y agoAssuming this works (which might be a big if, even with recently greatly expanded launch capabilities), it raises the question of who gets to decide whether a given piece of land should be illuminated at night or not. Hopefully not just the highest bidder, without any veto right of the (other) people that are there too?