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A provocative startup claims it will soon let people buy spots of sunlight reflected with a giant satellite mirror — but there are still a lot of outstanding questions about how the whole thing will actually work., the Reflect Orbital startup has begun taking applications to "reserve a spot of light," promoting the offering with a demonstration video posted to X-formerly-Twitter.
We've reached out to the startup to ask about the financial elephant in the room and haven't yet heard back, but if we had to guess, we suspect it's not exactly going to be cheap given that even the cheapest and smallest satellite launches areThen again, if anyone could make it happen today, it probably would be a former SpaceX employee — as long as other people are paying for it.
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