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Title A Big Night Light in the Sky? Start-Up Wants to Launch a Space Mirror. Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet New York Times Media type Print Country/Territory United States of America Date 9/03/26 Description Michael Brown, an astronomer at Australia’s Monash University, calculated that the reflected sunlight from one satellite would be spread over about 18 square miles. That would mean that the number of photons hitting a solar panel would be about 1/140,000th of the rate during midday.
Even with the 180-foot-wide mirrors, “over 3,000 satellites would be required to produce the equivalent of just 20 percent of the midday sun at a single site,” Dr. Brown wrote in his comment to the F.C.C. about Reflect Orbital’s application.Producer/Author Kenneth Chang, Hiroko Tabuchi URL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/climate/space-mirror-satellite-solar.html Persons Michael Brown
Keywords
- Astronomy
- Space
- Satellites
- Renewable Energy