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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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1. "Futurism" - https://futurism.com/startrocket-giant-ads-night-sky-cubesats
2. "Company Will Create an "Artificial Meteor Shower" Over Hiroshima, Japan in 2019" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/11/21/149201
3. "Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/17/2351257
4. "Japanese Company ispace Plans Two Missions to the Moon" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/09/26/2040216
5. "Another Highly Reflective Art Object Will be Launched Into Orbit in November" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/09/26/0132226
6. "First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/18/0127240
7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31244

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