Plan to Light Up the Night from Space: Reflect Orbital Conducted a Ground Demonstration, Astronomers Are Concerned
In October, Reflect Orbital conducted a ground demonstration in California of its future lighting system, having earlier received FCC permission for the first experimental satellite EARENDIL-1 with an 18×18-meter mirror. The American Astronomical Society asked back in March for the application to be denied, and a study in Astrophysical Journal Letters showed that light from a 54×54-meter mirror could be brighter than a full Moon and affect the night sky within tens of kilometers.
Sardor Qodirov