California firm Reflect Orbital plans 4,000 reflectors to beam light over cities and power sites, alarming astronomers and dark-sky advocates.

The idea sounds simple enough when reduced to its basics. Put reflective surfaces in orbit and redirect sunlight back to Earth after sunset. A Califor.

In an ambitious bid to extend daylight beyond the sunset, a California-based startup, Reflect Orbital, is planning to deploy thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit to redirect sunlight to ...

We first saw Reflect Orbital's goofy idea to send mirrors into space to reflect light onto dark areas of the planet back in ...

A California startup wants to use giant orbiting mirrors to reflect sunlight onto Earth after dark. The first test satellite ...