Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service".

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@sundogplanets sarcastic as hell take: Aliens are behind this.

[river@takohs.cc]

@sundogplanets can I share this outside of mastodon?

[jennifer@m.ai6yr.org]

@sundogplanets @ai6yr FYI since you have a big network!

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@river yes, share far and wide

[legocas@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets this is quite outrageous. How is it possible that everything in there public domain / commons seems to be up for grabs instead being protected for its cultural and natural value. Can’t believe this stuff.

[markmetz@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets @river
Happy to share this, do you have any more info about the reflect plan? This sounds as bad as the Russian company that’s planning on running advertisements in space.

[tony_meredith@mastodon.me.uk]

@sundogplanets Plus. It's open for comments worldwide. Right?

[olson@sfba.social]

@markmetz @sundogplanets @river

What?!? Who is gonna see them?

I’m glad I’m old.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Aside from the whole night sky thing, there are going to be ecological damage done by this. Lots of flora and fauna need dark and light cycles. :(

[mimiwhiskers@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets It makes zero sense to launch datacenters in space. I ain't gonna go through the technical reasons why, but you can read here where someone that actually worked at NASA and google explaining why its a bad idea... https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

But if I could take a moment to poke my conspiracy brain, I think this is more for building an advanced surveillance network against the whole world. You can possibly monitor almost everything on Earth with a network like that.

[keab42@kind.social]

@sundogplanets Are they really Mr Burns-ing it?

[tillymoose@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets
AMEN AMEN AMEN
ACT UP
May be considered as #ecocide, I wonder
Stop the bastards messing with the natural order

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets How is it that U.S. companies get to destroy space for the entire Earth?

[enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems]

@sundogplanets that sounds like something that would’ve sounded so far-fetched it’s cartoonish if it was a thing in a scifi story a few years ago. It sounds like something that would still be if it appeared in a scifi story today. I hate this timeline. Dystopian media should not be an instruction manual.

[markmetz@sfba.social]

@Olson @sundogplanets @river
The idea is that we all will, and we won’t have a choice.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
LEO "datacenters" make zero sense, even less sense than persistent orbit space-based datacenters would.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@sundogplanets

Sunlight as a Service from space, aka death ray upon demand. Vaporize entire neighborhoods with a small political donation.

[rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets on it!

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@Nonya_Bidniss @sundogplanets No one is stopping us. (please change that)