HomerJ
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slightly old article from 2022, so, thoughts?
www.forbes.com
www.standard.co.uk
www.theregister.com
Now another insidious kind of light pollution is being talked up in a recent study published in the journal Aerospace. It looks at the possibility of a space advertising mission. Yes, that's right—advertising in the night sky. The researchers from Skoltech, a private university Moscow, Russia, studied the economic feasibility of launching a bunch of satellites into orbit to fly in formation and reflect sunlight to display commercials in the sky above cities. This is surely the ultimate definition of space junk “As unrealistic as it may seem, we show that space advertising based on 50 or more small satellites flying in formation could be economically viable,” said Shamil Biktimirov, co-author and a research intern at Skoltech’s Engineering Center.
They arrived at a tentative cost of $65 million.
It Would Cost $65 Million To Display 60-Second Commercials In Twilight Above Cities
Researchers have studied the economic feasibility of a space advertising mission that would launch a formation of satellites into orbit to reflect sunlight and display commercials in the sky above cities.
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Ad-block this: Space billboards could soon be coming to London’s skies
You will need more than ad-block plugins to evade these ads beamed from satellites
www.standard.co.uk
Why not turn our skies into ad billboards, say boffins
They can't hurt us if we stay indoors
www.theregister.com
Now another insidious kind of light pollution is being talked up in a recent study published in the journal Aerospace. It looks at the possibility of a space advertising mission. Yes, that's right—advertising in the night sky. The researchers from Skoltech, a private university Moscow, Russia, studied the economic feasibility of launching a bunch of satellites into orbit to fly in formation and reflect sunlight to display commercials in the sky above cities. This is surely the ultimate definition of space junk “As unrealistic as it may seem, we show that space advertising based on 50 or more small satellites flying in formation could be economically viable,” said Shamil Biktimirov, co-author and a research intern at Skoltech’s Engineering Center.
They arrived at a tentative cost of $65 million.