Reflect Orbital plans to expand from 1 mirror satellite to 50,000 satellites.
“Reflect Orbital, which recently won FCC approval to launch a mirror satellite, which is what you think it is, designed to reflect sunlight onto Earth twenty four hours a day, either for actual light or to generate solar power. Right now, it's one satellite, but reflect wants it to be 50,000.”
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