[pidge]

Soon available as a service https://www.reflectorbital.com/

[alnwlsn]

I refuse to believe this project isn't some sort of elaborate troll.

[notahacker]

I'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]

Asimov described a similar thing in I Robot. I imagine it'd create very unpredictable climate issues.

[kjs3]

Some people have convinced themselves they can disrupt anything.

[lxgr]

Assuming 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?

[ChiefNotAClue]

Dave from the EEVBlog did a take on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM

[perdomon]

Scrolljacking makes it impossible to get info from a website at a glance.

[IncreasePosts]

That seems outrageous. Do they make any claims about how many watts or lumens they can deliver, and to what area?

[margalabargala]

"As many as VC money is prepared to pay for" is the answer here.

[TrainedMonkey]

Astronomers: 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)

[bee_rider]

I’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.