SpaceX is Launching a Satellite That Will Display Billboard Ads From Space

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SpaceX is Launching a Satellite That Will Display Billboard Ads From Space
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Space is going to be a billboard. If you like to run your own ad, the collaboration accepts cryptocurrencies only. 💫 engineering

However, the collaboration won't feature a classic advertising billboard that we are used to see around, the ads will run on a Calgary-based GEC is an intellectual property, manufacturing, and logistics company, all rolled into one. Through its subsidiaries,

Geometric Space, GeometricLabs, Geometric Medical, and Geometric Gaming, the company is inventing and manufacturing products and services for its customers in the private as well as the public sectors. As the company claims, during the pandemic, it supplied"ethically sourced" nitrile gloves to institutions in Canada and the U.S. while also developing a solid-state Sodium-Ion battery product.

Another area of service for the company is CubeSat integration. CubeSats are smaller satellites manufactured with mass-produced components for commercial purposes. Weighing not more than 660 pounds , CubeSats can be assembled on demand and. For its advertising project, GEC plans to use its expertise in CubeSat integration and plans to put a pixelated display screen on one side that will be used for advertising purposes.

CubeSat will be put in orbit by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that will travel to the Moon in the first quarter of 2022. To put up an advert on its screen, those who are interested need to buy tokens that can be used to design a pixel. The company revealed to Business Insider that it will offer five tokens for purchase; Beta for the X coordinate, Rhoe for the Y coordinate, Gamma for the brightness, Kappa for the color, and XI for time.

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