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One Russian company has announced a plan to build gigantic billboards in space, lighting up the night sky with advertisements for companies like Coke, McDonald’s, and KFC. If they’re successful, we could start seeing advertisements floating in the sky as soon as 2021.
On the one hand, this is a pretty incredible technological marvel. The company, StartRocket, plans to launch dozens of tiny CubeSats into orbit roughly 280 miles above the ground in a single rocket. Those CubeSats would then fly in formation and deploy giant reflective sails to send the sun’s light to Earth. Each one of these sails can be controlled independently, so the CubeSats act like programmable pixels.
This type of aerial advertising would have to be approved by all kinds of regulatory agencies, and gaining that type of approval would ultimately take a long time. The tech may be ready by 2021, StartRocket says, but it's possible the public will not be.
Image: StartRocket.me
