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Glowing Space Billboards Could Show Ads in the Night Sky

posted by takyon on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly
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Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/glowing-space-billboards-could-light-up-the-night-sky-in-2020/

Look up at the night sky in 2020 and you might see an ad for McDonald's floating among the stars. A startup is planning to use a constellation of tiny satellites to create glowing ads. The satellites would light up different messages for up to six minutes at a time at about 250 miles above Earth.

Also at Futurism.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by zocalo on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:50PM (1 child)

    by zocalo (302) on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:50PM (#788665)
    This is almost certainly a non-starter. None of the major launch providers want their rockets and satellites to have to dodge space junk, and constellations of tiny satellites just seems like a recipe for even more orbital debris, even if they work as expected. Remember Swarm Technologies? They wanted to launch a constellation of just 4 tiny satellites to trial their system, got denied because of a combination of frequency usage and tracking concerns, went ahead with the launch anyway, and just got fined $900k by the FCC. [theverge.com].

    A constellation of the dozens, or even hundreds, of cubesats necessary to support this simply isn't going to fly. I'm sure they'll have a fine time spending all that money from VCs and dumb advertisers though.
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Saturday January 19 2019, @09:40PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 19 2019, @09:40PM (#788779) Journal

    On the other hand, the visceral hatred advertisers have for ad-free spaces will overcome any obstacle to make our lives a little more monetized.