FULL STORY: This is one of those stories that reminds you, yeah, we’re living in the future: A tech startup in California called Reflect Orbital is planning to use mirrored satellites to sell people SUNLIGHT when it’s dark out.
One of the co-founders is a former SpaceX employee. They’re trying to put a constellation of satellites into orbit that can reflect sunlight and direct it anywhere on Earth. Russia actually did a proof-of-concept decades ago, and it worked.
It’s mainly designed to help big solar farms keep generating power at night. But anyone can go to their website and fill out a “Sunshine Application“. The deadline to apply is October 23rd.
You’ll need a pretty big plot of land to get approved though. Each patch of sunlight will be three miles across. So, your neighbors might not be wild about it.
It’s not clear how much they’re planning to charge, but it won’t be cheap. And don’t expect to have sunlight 24 hours a day, at least not yet.
For now, you’ll only get four minutes’ worth of sun. They’re hoping to start their initial test run in late 2025.
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