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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: 2) by slap on Saturday January 19 2019, @05:58PM
I did a quick set of calculations. Assuming an altitude of 100 miles, anything that would be large enough to make out would have to cover around 10 miles. And that would have to be something relatively simple due to its small visible size, like the McDonalds golden arches. Or at most maybe flashing short, single words.