It sounds like science fiction, but it is a serious business model: This year, the US company Reflect Orbital plans to send a special satellite into space. At an altitude of around 600 kilometers, it is supposed to deploy a large mirror and redirect sunlight from the day side of Earth to the night side.
What? They’ve got to be out of their minds, right?
Haven’t we been talking about “light pollution” often enough already? Just look up at the sky—in many places, you can’t see any stars anymore because everything below is lit up. And now they want to use mirrors to brighten the night from above, too? Even if this is “only” about 5 square kilometers, it can’t be right. As soon as the first people realize—oh—this means my solar system can generate a little power even at night, things are going to get really crowded. Then, alongside Musk’s countless satellites, there will also be all kinds of mirrors flying around, trying to turn night into day. As if there weren’t already enough junk up there.
Animals, plants … my goodness—the Americans really seem not to care about anything, do they?
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