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Reflect Orbital satellites could roast the night sky!

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 by Richard Harris

Are you kidding me? As if the ever-growing wall of light pollution from every city, streetlight, and LED billboard wasn’t already bad enough, now we’ve got a startup that wants to beam sunlight back down to Earth at night. Reflect Orbital - backed by Sequoia Capital and Baij...

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Bright satellites launched by AST SpaceMobile concern astronomers

Friday, September 27, 2024 by Richard Harris

In a groundbreaking development, AST SpaceMobile successfully launched five commercial satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) on September 12, 2024, as part of its BlueBird 1-5 mission. These satellites, designed to offer global cellular broadband services directly to smartphones, have sparked concer...

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