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Block this: Scientists show how satellite advertising could be economically viable
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The tl;dr of the paper – “Satellite Formation Flying for Space Advertising: From Technically Feasible to Economically Viable” – is to send up a constellation of about 50 12U-cubesats and place them in a Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit so that they are always in direct sunlight.
Each small satellite (about 20cm x 20cm x 34.05cm and weighing around 6-8kg) would then deploy solar reflectors, bouncing that sunlight down onto consumers. These satellites could be programmed to assume certain formations – like, perish the thought, “I’m lovin’ it” – that change depending on the city below and the advertiser willing to shell out for that prime real estate we know as the sky.
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As seen on Futurama …
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I’m reconsidering my position on the death penalty.
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NASA’s Juno probe had a close encounter with the Jovian moon Europa on September 29 and this week the space agency released the highest resolution photograph ever taken of its icy crust.
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